As churches across our Diocese fill for Sunday Mass, Bishop Richard and our Lourdes pilgrims will celebrate with thousands of other pilgrims
The 848 pilgrims from across our community of faith who are in Lourdes will gather for Mass for the first time today.
Hundreds of people from our Diocese are on the move: on the way to Lourdes by plane, train, coach, car, Jumbulance – even by bicycle!
Follow along with the pilgrimage's daily prayer and Masses.
Simon Tierney was ordained by Bishop Richard on Thursday evening.
132 CYMFED Awards were presented to students from 12 diocesan primary and secondary schools.
The pair plan to raise vital Pilgrimage funds with a 500+ mile journey across France.
"It is the Lord who calls us, the Lord Who accompanies us, the Lord Who shepherds us."
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Participants from schools and Trusts from around the Diocese, had the opportunity to listen, discuss and pray together.
Archbishop John Wilson held St Oscar up as an example to parishes & schools: a bishop who "made his own the plight" of his people.
The school becomes the eighteenth primary and twenty-second school to join Xavier CET.
"Educate to promote dignity, justice, and trust in a war-torn world"
The Catholic Bishop's Conference and Birmingham Newman University would like to hear from neurodivergent Catholic adults and caregivers.
The Holy Father will designate Newman as co-patron saint of education, with St Thomas Aquinas, during the Jubilee for Education.
The Trust aims to ensure every child access to a high-quality education that nurtures their spiritual, academic, and personal growth.
