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November 7, 2023

Bishops issue statement on war in the Holy Land

Bishop Declan Lang, Chair of the Bishops’ Conference’s International Affairs department, and Bishop Nicholas Hudson, Chair of the Holy Land Co-ordination have released a statement on […]
October 28, 2023

East Anglia’s own former Patron Saint of England

In his occasional series on saints with East Anglian connections, Nick Walmsley looks at our own former Patron Saint of England. November 20 marks the Feast […]
October 27, 2023

Bishop Peter’s Rome encounter with Pope Francis

Bishop Peter Collins met Pope Francis during a formation conference for 230 new bishops in Rome during September. Here he gives his thoughts on the experience. […]
October 25, 2023

November Catholic East Anglia is published online

The November 2023 edition of the Catholic East Anglia newspaper is now published online and paper copies will be available in parishes later this week. The […]
October 22, 2023

Two new members join the Ignite Youth Team

Two new members have joined the Ignite Youth Team from September for a year. They are UEA master’s student Adam Dodd and Peterborough parishioner Alexander Thanickal, […]
October 18, 2023

Norfolk churches urged to join shoebox project

Churches and families across Norfolk are being urged to pack shoeboxes with Christmas gifts for needy children across the world in partnership with Operation Christmas Child. […]
October 11, 2023

Bishop meets lay chaplains from East Anglia schools

Bishop Peter Collins met with Lay Chaplains to Diocese of East Anglia Catholic Secondary Schools and the Chaplain to St Bede’s Inter Church School, on Friday […]
October 10, 2023

Penafrancia Pilgrimage takes to water on the Broads

The 13th Annual Pilgrimage and Feast celebrating the Philippines’ devotion to Our Lady of Penafrancia took place in the twin Norfolk villages of Hoveton and Wroxham […]
October 9, 2023

Priest retires, fundraiser success, harvest festival

Latest news of interest across the Diocese of East Anglia includes a farewell to a retiring parish priest, a successful fundraiser and a harvest festival. Parishioners […]
October 8, 2023

Bishop Peter celebrates with King’s Lynn school

Bishop Peter Collins visited St Martha’s RC Primary School in King’s Lynn to celebrate its Gospel Assembly on Monday September 18, reports headteacher Rachel Edwards. “Following […]
October 6, 2023

Preview video as Synod of Bishops begins in Rome

As the 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome begins, England and Wales representatives Fr Jan Nowotnik and theologian and former Cambridge academic Prof Anna Rowlands, have […]
October 5, 2023

Pope Francis plea on the global climate crisis is backed

Pope Francis has released his Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, ‘Praise God’, to “clarify and complete” what he started in 2015 with his Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ […]
October 2, 2023

Does God hear me when I cry, asks Fr Alvan?

Does God hear me when I cry, asks Fr Alvan Ibeh in his latest Voice of Hope series. Have you noticed that the year is gradually […]
September 30, 2023

750 pupils from across Diocese attend Schools Mass

Around 750 pupils from all 28 Catholic schools across the Diocese of East Anglia gathered in St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich on Friday September […]
September 29, 2023

Bishop helps Suffolk Historic Churches Trust celebrate

Bishop Peter Collins has taken part in an ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving for 50 years of Suffolk Historic Churches Trust, held at St Edmundsbury Cathedral on […]