May 17th, 2022 | Day For Life, Life Issues
The focus of this year’s Day for Life is caring for and valuing the elderly. You can support this and other Day for Life initiatives upholding the dignity of every human life from conception to natural end by making a secure donation here.
May 17th, 2022 | Day For Life, Life Issues
Sunday, 19 June 2022 Caring for the Older Person The focus of the Day for Life this year is older persons. The COVID pandemic highlighted the desperate plight of many older people, especially those in care homes and those struggling with long-term chronic conditions such as dementia. They carried the highest burden which included prolonged […]
May 17th, 2022 | Day For Life, Life Issues
Sunday, 19 June 2022 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.Psalm 71:9 The COVID pandemic highlighted the desperate plight of many older people, especially those in care homes and those struggling with long-term chronic conditions such as dementia. They carried the highest burden […]
May 17th, 2022 | CBCEW, Donate, Life Issues
The Day for Life Fund provides financial assistance each year to organisations working to support the Church’s mission to protect human life from conception to natural death. Each year, the money donated by the faithful on the Day for Life is dispersed to these organisations to assist them in undertaking specific projects relating to life […]
June 9th, 2021 | Day For Life, End of Life, Life Issues
Sunday, 20 June 2021 Bishop John Sherrington, the Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Church in England and Wales, has written to his brother bishops about this year’s Day for Life. Day for Life is an annual celebration of the intrinsic value and dignity of every human person from conception to natural death. Message […]
May 26th, 2020 | Day For Life, Life Issues
Day for Life 2020 has been given an Apostolic Blessing from Pope Francis. This year, the theme is Choose Life, which will focus on the dignity and worth of the unborn child and expectant mothers. Papal Blessing The Holy Father sent the following message – communicated by the Holy See’s Secretariat of State: “His Holiness […]
April 15th, 2020 | Coronavirus, End of Life, Life Issues
The Day for Life fund of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has made a donation of £15,000 to Hospice UK’s COVID-19 appeal. Bishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues in England and Wales, said: “Hospices play a really important part in local communities, providing care for those who are dying and invaluable […]
June 6th, 2019 | Day For Life
Pope Francis on Day for Life 2019
June 12th, 2017 | Day For Life, Life Issues
Pope’s Life Message
July 24th, 2015 | Day For Life
DFL Interview
November 14th, 2014 | Papal Visit 1982, Plenaries
A statement from the November 2014 Bishops’ Conference Plenary meeting at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, on Day for Life
