The former Church of the Immaculate Conception, also known as Old St Mary’s – Barnstaple. Credit: CBCEW Historic England has awarded a grant of £196,832 …
Cardinal Tagle: Evangelization isn’t complicated, it’s ‘a conversation about Jesus’
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle speaks at a Vatican press conference presenting the 2021 World Mission Day, Oct. 21, 2021. | Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Cardinal Luis Antonio …
Why turn the other cheek? To defeat hatred and evil, Pope Francis says
Pope Francis waves during the Angelus on Sept. 26, 2021 | Vatican Media To love one’s enemies and to turn the other cheek seems impossible, …
Pope Francis: ‘The world needs beauty more than ever’
Image Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis said yesterday that the world needs beauty more than ever, as beauty can awaken a thirst for God. “Beauty …
Pope Francis gives personal reflection on 52 years of priesthood
Pope Francis addresses the International Theological Symposium on the Priesthood at the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, Feb. 17, 2022. | Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Pope Francis on …
Pope Francis: ‘Let us ask ourselves if, in our hearts, we love the Church’
Pope Francis’ general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Feb. 16, 2022. | Vatican Media. Pope Francis encouraged Catholics on yesterday to …
Are Pope Francis’ changes to canon law true decentralisation?
St. Peter’s Dome. | dade72 via Shutterstock. In his 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium, Pope Francis expressed his desire to see a “healthy decentralisation” in …
Pope Francis seeks ‘healthy decentralisation with new changes to canon law
Pope Francis’ general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Feb. 9, 2022. | Vatican Media. Pope Francis unveiled new changes to Church …
Charles Plater Trust launches its biggest multi-year grant programme
Rembrandt Return of the Prodigal Son. Credit: CBCEW Spreading the love on Valentine’s Day, The Charles Plater Trust (CPT) has launched a new £2.5 million …
Trial begins in France over murder of Fr Jacques Hamel
Fr. Jacques Hamel, who was killed by Islamic State terrorists while saying Mass, July 26, 2016. The trial began in Paris yesterday, for four people …
Cardinal Nichols: Pray for peace in Ukraine
Cardinal Nichols praying in the Cathedral for peace in Ukraine. Credit: CBCEW Cardinal Vincent Nichols has urged the Catholic community to pray for peace in …
Pope modifies the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Pope Francis. Credit: CBCEW CDF now has two sections with distinct secretaries Pope Francis has issued a motu proprio, a personal edict of the pope, …
Pope Francis at the Angelus: accept the ‘Paradox of the Beatitudes’
Pope Francis waves to the crowd during the Sunday Angelus. | Vatican Media Pope Francis spoke on the paradox of the Beatitudes in his Sunday …
Weekly Newsletter 12th February 2022 (107)
Weekly Newsletter 12th February 2022 (107). 95 new jobs posted this week.
European anti-trafficking conference working on action plan to eradicate modern slavery
Modern Slavery Protester. Credit: CBCEW European Santa Marta Group ConferenceCologne, 8-9 February 2022 The first Santa Marta Europe Conference, organised with the German Catholic Bishops’ …
“Keep your indignation alive,” says Pope on the World Day of Prayer and Reflection against Human Trafficking
Pope Francis. Credit: Vatican Media Pope Francis has described violence suffered by trafficked women and girls as “an open wound on the body of Christ” …
Pope Francis to priests: Don’t ‘remain barricaded in the sacristy’
Pope Francis meets members of Rome’s Pontifical Lombard Seminary at the Vatican’s Clementine Hall on Feb. 7, 2022. | Vatican Media. Pope Francis encouraged priests …
Vatican acknowledges challenges in global synodal process
he opening of the Synod for the Family at the Vatican on Oct. 5, 2015. | Vatican Media. The Vatican acknowledged yesterday that the Church’s …
Celebrate the great cultural richness and diversity that makes up the Catholic Church, says Archbishop Wilson
Archbishop Wilson celebrating Mass, Brixton. Credit: CBCEW Speaking at a Mass in Brixton, South London, a week before Racial Justice Sunday, Archbishop John Wilson has …