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Marriage Care are the largest faith-based relationship support-specialists in the UK. They provide nearly 6,000 relationship counselling sessions each year from 100 locations. All their centres and services are run by volunteers, and this means that they can provide counselling sessions on a donation basis, ensuring everyone can access their support. Marriage Care are offering a two-year...

Bishop David encouraged students to become the best person they can become as he celebrated Mass for the students, staff, governors and directors of all our Catholic schools. On Monday 11th October, each of our Catholic schools sent representatives to St Mary's Catholic Church in Dunstable, to celebrate Catholic education together. Usually, the church would be packed with students, however due...

This Sunday, 10th October is designated 'Prisoners Sunday'. It is a day when the Catholic Church of England and Wales "responds to Jesus' invitation to visit the prisoner". Pact is the national Catholic charity which provides support to men, women and young people in prison, people with convictions, and their children and families. Our vision is of a society in which justice is understood as a...

Virginia Bell of the Laudato Si Animators writes: The United Nations climate talks or Conference of Parties (COP) will take place 1-12 November 2021 in Glasgow. COP26 will be the biggest summit ever hosted in the UK.It is the most significant climate event since the 2015 Paris Agreement, at which over 190 countries agreed to the aim of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees...

Life is a national pregnancy-support charity based on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, helping hundreds of women every day. They are also now members of the Baby Loss Awareness Alliance. The Alliance is made up of over 100 UK charities working in the maternal support sector helping those affected by pregnancy and baby loss. About Baby Loss Awareness Week Now in its 19th year, Baby...

Bishop David spoke to the chairs of our diocesan pastoral area councils on Saturday 11th September at the newly opened St Thomas Centre at our Cathedral in Northampton. The day focussed on the upcoming SYNOD announced recently by pope Francis. Canon Francis Higgins, appointed to oversee the synod at its diocesan level, shared the vision of the synod being an opportunity for "gracious listening"....

As we approach COP26, many in our parishes are seeking ways to live out Pope Francis' key messages from his 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si. To help us on this journey we are invited to join a host of speakers including Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Bishop Paul Swarbrick from Lancaster Diocese, as we aim to see tangible change inn. our local areas. Read below for more information... WHY? Faith is the...

Oliver Doherty, aged 11 from St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Luton has won the Year 5-6 Creative Writing category of the annual Show Racism the Red Card School Competition. The Competition has been running for 22 years and has become the biggest equalities competition in the UK with over 23,600 entrants this year from more than 340 schools. The Competition is free to enter for all young...