Archbishop Conti has been awarded one of the most prestigious prizes of his family’s native Italian region of Tuscany. He has been given the Gold Medal of the “Lucchesi nel Mondo” and was due to be presented with the award at a special ceremony in Lucca later this month. However the ongoing pandemic has meant the scaling back of the …
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Bishop Stephen welcomes the return of staff and pupils with few words of introduction and a special blessing – and Mrs Mary O’Duffin, Dunkeld’s RE Advisor, looks at how schools are adapted to some new rules – but also at the support that we receive from regular prayer and from the sacraments.
Remember #WeAreStillHere! EARLIER this year, Pope Francis highlighted his passion for the Pontifical Mission Societies—known here as Missio Scotland—saying the mission is at the heart and identity of the Church, and the worldwide network reflects the rich variety of the ‘people with a thousand faces.’ Now, a new initiative by the various National Offices of the PMS throughout the world—entitled …
Following our series of live-streams to YouTube during lockdown – we have now installed a permanent camera (above), and a new sound system, in St Joseph’s Chapel at Lawside. We are grateful to an anonymous donor who has funded this project which enables those who are unable to return to their own church at this time to keep in touch. …
Fr Tobias Okoro, parish priest at St Fergus’, Forfar, and St St Anthony’s, Kirriemuir, has announced that the Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, planned for Autumn 2020, has been postponed due to the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. Fr Tobias said, “this pilgrimage would have taken place in October this year. But due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, it has been postponed …
During his historic visit to Japan last year, Pope Francis declared that “the use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, just as the possession of atomic weapons is immoral”. Seventy-five years on from the unprecedented and horrific destruction of life at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are called to reflect prayerfully upon the UK’s own possession of nuclear …
The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland has responded to the Scottish Government’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Bill. In a submission to the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee the Conference has stated that any new law must be ‘carefully weighed against fundamental freedoms, such as the right to free speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.’ The …
Scotland’s Catholic Bishops have approved the preparation of a new Lectionary (a book of readings used at Mass) to update and replace the three volume Lectionary in use in the dioceses of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland for almost 30 years. The current Lectionary was first published in 1981 using the Jerusalem Bible (1966) as its base text. Commenting …