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Siân Thomas, a Walsingham House alumni, has been appointed as the first Caritas Development Co-ordinator. Her role is to support existing charitable projects in parishes across the Diocese, help with training and grant applications, and inspire and assist those who want to begin projects but are not sure where to start.
Million Minutes raises money to help fund youth-led social action projects across England and Wales, like ‘Your Life, More LIfe’ launched by Shanea Oldham in our diocese. Please support those young people involved in a sponsored ‘siLENT’ if you can.
Bishop Moth said: “In a time when we are being given so much hope by the efficient roll-out of the vaccination programme, it is shocking to hear that people with learning disabilities are being made the victims of such discrimination.”
The “Guardians of Creation” project will take an ‘integral ecology’ approach at all levels, meaning that it will not just be limited to questions of carbon, but will consider wider social and environmental sustainability objectives.
The Marriage and Family Life Department has interviewed married and engaged couples in the diocese to mark the week which culminated in St. Valentine’s Day and produced a special celebration of love with a video from children of the diocese.
The Bishops’ Conference has welcomed the ‘Leave Them Certain’ initiative as a step in the right direction of ensuring that families are always included in the end-of-life care and decisions of their loved ones.
CAFOD is inviting people to ‘Walk for Water’ so that people like Abdella in Ethiopia do not have walk for 10 hours a day to find water for their families.
Are you concerned about the environmental crisis we are facing? Join the Global Catholic Movement in a series of reflective evenings with inspiring speakers, prayer and discussion, using the film-based resource “Global Healing”.
For Austen Ivereigh, Pope Francis is ‘the world’s spiritual director’ encouraging us to grasp the potential of the crisis.
Cardinal Nichols said “I pray for each and everyone, those who have died, those who mourn, those who serve.”
