The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales gathered in Buckfast Abbey for their spring plenary meeting from 12 – 19 April 2024.
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The majority of this time will be spent together in prayerful retreat – the first time in five years the Bishops have had this opportunity.
They will be guided in their retreat by Bishop Erik Varden, who is a Norwegian Trappist monk and Bishop of Trondheim. Bishop Varden served as Abbot of Mount Saint Bernard’s Abbey in Leicestershire from April 2015 to September 2019.
This pastoral reflection emphasises that all are welcome in the Church, but says that the sexual identity of an individual is not a purely “cultural or social construction.”
Appointments to the Principal Officers and Chairs of the Episcopal Commissions for the next quinquennium
