St Antony’s: a Living Wage ‘legend’

The children of St Antony's Primary in Forest Gate are committed to Catholic Social Teaching and the school has been successfully campaigning with Citizens UK and the Living Wage Foundation to get local employers to pay the real living wage for many years.

Pope Benedict XVI Requiescat in pace

The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales will celebrate Requiem Masses for the repose of the soul of the late Pope Emeritus in their cathedrals. In Brentwood Cathedral Bishop Alan will say Mass on 8 January at 11.30 am.

Bishop asks parishes to support Ukrainian emergency appeal

Bishop Alan has written to parishes asking for their support of the Ukrainian Emergency Winter Appeal. Ukrainians remain resilient despite the circumstances of the war, but they are in the throes of a harsh winter.  For that reason a new Emergency Winter Appeal has been launched to provide food packages for the most vulnerable on