Latest News

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July 1, 2022

Bishop Alan celebrates legacy of Blessed Pauline Jaricot

Bishop Alan Hopes celebrated a Mass at St John’s Cathedral to mark the Beatification of the co-founder of Missio, Blessed Pauline Jaricot. Blessed Pauline was born […]
June 29, 2022

CAFOD plans anniversary celebration at Peterborough

CAFOD volunteers in East Anglia have planned a local celebration of CAFOD’s 60th anniversary with a Mass at St Peter and All Souls Church in Peterborough. […]
June 25, 2022

St John Fisher School creates a Platinum Jubilee quiz

To celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen, pupils at St John Fisher Catholic High School in Peterborough embarked on a royal research project. […]
June 23, 2022

Bishop Alan backs campaign against assisted suicide

Bishop Alan Hopes has appealed to Catholic health professionals to support the campaign against assisted suicide by signing a declaration affirming the right to life. Bishop Alan’s […]
June 23, 2022

New Dawn Conference moves into Walsingham Shrine

For the first time this year, the Catholic family conference New Dawn in the Church will be running its main events in the grounds of the […]
June 22, 2022

Platinum Jubilee, Corpus Christi, Sea Sunday

Latest news from the Diocese of East Anglia includes a Platinum Jubilee celebration at Huntingdon, a Corpus Christi procession in Ipswich and Sea Sunday. Parishioners in […]
June 22, 2022

Papworth Mass centre closes after hospital moves

After 90 years of Mass being celebrated in the village of Papworth Everard, the Mass centre there has closed. In 2019 the Papworth Hospital moved to […]
June 7, 2022

CAFOD walk, Jubilee street party, painting competition

Latest news from the Diocese of East Anglia includes the CAFOD Walk Against Hunger, a Jubilee give-away for the homeless and the winners of a painting […]
June 6, 2022

Ukraine knitters, Cambridge chaplain, green schools

Latest news from the Diocese of East Anglia includes bootees and mittens for Ukraine, a new chaplain at Fisher House and energy-saving plans for diocesan schools. […]
June 1, 2022

Tuned-in mentor teaches the way to a prison leaver

Community Chaplaincy Norfolk (CCN) clocked up a major success when it paired its multi-talented mentor Thomas with Adie, a highly motivated prison leaver. Thomas recently moved […]
June 1, 2022

Children bring petals to Our Lady of Walsingham

For this first time this year, the Children’s Pilgrimage to Walsingham was combined with the Diocesan Pilgrimage, creating an event in which extended families could take […]
June 1, 2022

Diocesan Pilgrimage welcomes the new beginnings

An openness to new things was the theme of the Diocesan Pilgrimage as it came back in full strength to the National Shrine at Walsingham. The […]
May 31, 2022

Notre Dame High School celebrates diversity in unity

Notre Dame High School in Norwich recently celebrated the wide cultural diversity among its students and staff and the rich heritage of their communities. Students came […]
May 27, 2022

Bishop Alan blesses a ‘nest’ for special needs children

Bishop Alan has blessed a Special Needs Unit with unique cedar design at St Edmund’s Catholic Primary School in Bury St Edmunds. The unit was designed […]
May 27, 2022

An eyewitness report from a Dominican in Kiev

Fr Bob Eccles OP from the Dominicans in Cambridge has shared a letter from Fr Jaroslav Kraviec OP, a Polish member of the order who has […]