September 10th, 2026 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
Archbishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Bishops’ Conference, has urged Catholics in England and Wales to contact their MPs ahead of the Bill’s Second Reading and vote on Friday, 11 September, asking them to oppose it. The Archbishop of Liverpool points out that the Bill is “deeply flawed” and expresses numerous […]
September 2nd, 2026 | Assisted Suicide
Bishop Marcus Stock, Bishop Leeds [Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Middlesbrough and Diocese of Hallam], reminds us that intentionally take our own life is a rejection of God’s loving gift of life to us. Bishop Stock makes this call ahead of the vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday, […]
August 27th, 2026 | Environment, Season of Creation
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Is 2:4) is the theme of Pope Leo XIV’s Message for the 2026 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, published in the Bulletin of the Holy See. The World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will be on […]
August 27th, 2026 | Environment, Pope Leo XIV, Season of Creation
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Is 2:4) is the theme of Pope Leo XIV’s Message for the 2026 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, published in the Bulletin of the Holy See. The World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will be on […]
August 24th, 2026 |
Today’s Catholic News podcast looks at palliative care, social care and what needs to be ‘fixed’ – as Prime Minister Andy Burnham puts it. Our guest is Dr Karen Groves MBE, a highly experienced palliative care consultant who founded Queenscourt Hospice in Southport in 1991. Hospices lie at the heart of our communities and provide […]
August 13th, 2026 | Home Mission Sunday
I believe… Evangelii Gaudium Sunday was celebrated in our parishes on 21 September 2025. The Church has been celebrating a significant anniversary. It’s 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea. This great gathering of Bishops from around the Church began the work to formulate the creed we proclaim Sunday by Sunday. It is the content of this […]
August 10th, 2026 | Assisted Suicide, End of Life, Life Issues
In a pastoral letter to the faithful of the Diocese of Nottingham, Bishop Patrick McKinney urgently called for Catholics to write to their MPs to share their concerns ahead of the vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday, 11 September. The letter, that was read at all Sunday Masses in […]
August 7th, 2026 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
The Catholic Medical Association (CMA) is dismayed by the re-introduction of the flawed Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and by the possibility of it being pushed through the Lords using the Parliament Acts. The House of Commons failed to amend and make it safer, which meant it ran out of time in the […]
August 1st, 2026 | Life Issues
The 42nd Pilgrimage of Reparation and Prayer for the Sanctity of Life took place on 1 August 2026, the memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, at the Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady, Walsingham. Below is the homily which was preached by Bishop Peter Collins. Bishop Collins’ Homily on the occasion of the 42nd […]
July 24th, 2026 | Assisted Suicide
Bishop Mark Davies has written to the Catholics of the Diocese of Shrewsbury asking them to urge their MP to vote against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. The Bill, that seeks to legalise assisted suicide, will have its second reading and vote on Friday, 11 September. “As Christians we oppose medical killing […]
July 23rd, 2026 |
Abbot Hugh Allan joins us again this month for an episode of At the Foot of the Cross that amplifies the Bishops’ call for Catholics, and those of goodwill who stand against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, to contact their MPs to ask them to vote against making assisted suicide law. The […]
July 21st, 2026 | Assisted Suicide, Life Issues
Archbishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Bishops’ Conference, has issued a statement highlighting the many dangers of the Private Members’ Bill that seeks to legalise assisted suicide: “The Second Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is expected to take place in the House of Commons on 11 […]
