A LETTER FROM FR JOHN OGILVIE SJ On 9 March 2015 an ecumenical vespers was held at St Aloysius church in Glasgow, on the eve of the 400th anniversary of the martyrdom of St John Ogilvie SJ. Fr Dermot Preston gave the homily, that you can listen to [here]... in which he read this letter: [extracts follow...
The Vatican Secretariat of State had specifically looked into changing the protocol, at Pope Francis’ request. As it turned out, the protocol was applied for the first time on the occasion of the visit by Argentina’s new President Mauricio Macri to the Vatican, where he attended an audience with Pope Francis on Saturday 27...
The article below by Father Robert Mann SCJ, who is billed to speak at our forthcoming Conference, featured on an American blog, Aka Catholic, recently, entitled A Great Deprivation. Hopefully, it will encourage those of our readers not yet booked to attend our June Conference, to do so without delay. Already, as soon as our February...
Two churches in the north-east of England will take to the streets on Ash Wednesday, encouraging people to repent and return to God. On Wednesday St Mary’s Catholic church and Sunderland Minster, an Anglican church, will be working together to offer “Ashes to Go” – a new approach to a centuries-old Christian tradition. The initiative will...
