30/12/2010
Under a week after the Holy Father's BBC Radio 4 Today programme debut, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has offered his 'Thought For The Day'.
Read More25/12/2010
In this year's message, the Holy Father reflects on our hearts seeking a truth in Christ that is love: "Children seek it with their questions, so disarming and stimulating; young people seek it in their eagerness to discover the deepest meaning of their life; adults seek it in order to guide and sustain their commitments in the family and the workplace; the elderly seek it in order to grant completion to their earthly existence."
Read More25/12/2010
Here you will find links to the Bishops' Christmas messages found on their diocesan websites.
Read More25/12/2010
"We talk about the joy of Christmas – joy is an interior thing, joy comes from a reflection about hope; about being cared for, about a loving God, about somehow being able to be quiet and to realise the blessings that we have."
Read More24/12/2010
Pope Benedict's Christmas message to the UK was broadcast as the Christmas Eve Thought For The Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Read More20/12/2010
The Holy Father reflects on his visit to Parliament and Westminster Hall as "an encounter in which awareness of shared responsibility at this moment in history created great attention which, in the final analysis, was directed to the question of truth and faith itself."
Read More19/12/2010
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain His Excellency Archbishop Antonio Mennini, Titular Archbishop of Ferento. The announcement was made on Saturday, 18 December 2010.
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It's week four of our seasonal 'Advent Art' podcasts. The series tells the Advent story using four paintings from the National Gallery’s world-famous collection.
Read More16/12/2010
Bishop Patrick Lynch, Chairman of the Office for Migration Policy of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has welcomed the Government’s announcement aimed at ending the detention of children and their families in the immigration system.
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Pope Benedict XVI was presented with the official Papal Visit DVD by Papal Visit Co-ordinator Mgr Andrew Summersgill at the weekly Audience in the Vatican on 15 December.
Read More14/12/2010
A new web resource for Catholics Experiencing Domestic Abuse has been launched by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales' Domestic Abuse Working Group. The aim of CEDAR (Catholics Experiencing Domestic Abuse Resources) is to create an environment within the Catholic community in which domestic abuse is understood and recognised as unacceptable and where appropriate responses are available.
Read More13/12/2010
In a seasonal 'Pause For Thought' on BBC Radio 2, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor points to The Venerable Bede, an 8th Century monk, as the man responsible for the way we date history from the time of Christ's birth - popularising the use of "BC" and "AD".
Read More13/12/2010
Parish representatives have been gathering across England and Wales to receive paintings and candles that were blessed by Pope Benedict XVI to support the legacy of his visit to the UK.
Read More11/12/2010
It's week three of our seasonal 'Advent Art' podcasts. The series tells the Advent story using four paintings from the National Gallery’s world-famous collection.
Read More07/12/2010
Celebrating Pope Benedict XVI’s historic first State Visit to the UK, the DVD tells the story of the extraordinary four days in September 2010 offering not just event highlights, but the depth of the Holy Father’s words and the true significance of all the components of the Visit.
Read More05/12/2010
A Mass of thanksgiving for the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz, was celebrated in Westminster Cathedral on Thursday 2 December at 5.30pm.
Read More05/12/2010
It's week two of our seasonal 'Advent Art' podcasts. The series tells the Advent story using four paintings from the National Gallery’s world-famous collection.
Read More01/12/2010
The Nativity Trail, the traditional story of Christmas as depicted by artists over 500 years, was warmly commended during the official launch at the Birmingham Museum by the Most Reverend Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham (30 November).
Read More28/11/2010
Our new seasonal podcast series telling the Advent story using four paintings in the National Gallery’s world-famous collection begins today (28 November).
Read More26/11/2010
A special Mass has been held at Westminster Cathedral for all those who have died or were injured in recent weeks in Iraq, especially in the bombing of Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad on 31 October 2010.
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