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June 4, 2018

First Communions and Swaffham sisters celebrate

Latest news from across the Diocese of East Anglia includes First Holy Communions in Gorleston, record numbers in Wisbech and the Swaffham Sisters who are celebrating […]
June 3, 2018

St George’s Proclaim the Gospel message

Last autumn some parishioners from St George’s in Norwich undertook to participate in a Proclaim initiative piloted in the Plymouth Diocese on Evangelization. Monica Barnham reports […]
May 30, 2018

Hundreds join children’s pilgrimage to Walsingham

Over 400 young people and adults joined in an enthusiastic Children's Pilgrimage and Mass at Walsingham on Tuesday May 29, led by Bishop Alan Hopes. Large […]
May 22, 2018

Priest Fr Philip in Carrow Road return for Norwich City

Former Norwich City star Philip Mulryne preached from the heart at St John's Cathedral in Norwich on Sunday morning, just hours before he made a return […]
May 10, 2018

Norwich 40 Days for Life vigil changed hearts and minds

Hearts and minds being changed was the most evident fruit of a 40 Days for Life vigil held outside an abortion clinic in Norwich. Eldred Willey […]
May 8, 2018

900 join East Anglia Diocese pilgrimage to Walsingham

Around 900 people joined the annual Diocese of East Anglia pilgrimage to Walsingham on Bank Holiday Monday, May 7, which took on a new format in […]
May 2, 2018

Ciaran’s action-packed year with the Ignite youth team

Diocese of East Anglia Ignite youth team member Ciaran Losasso looks back on a packed year so far. Looking back over the months since I joined […]
April 30, 2018

Hundreds join Rosary on the Coast prayers in East Anglia

The Rosary on the Coast prayer event was marked by hundreds of people at over a dozen locations across the Diocese of East Anglia yesterday. Hundreds […]
April 24, 2018

Ex-archbishop’s stories of urban saints at UEA in Norwich

Holiness – demonstrated through the lives of three modern urban saints – was the subject of a Newman Lecture, given by former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr […]
April 21, 2018

Bishop’s pastoral letter on the vocation to be a priest

On Good Shepherd Sunday, Bishop Alan Hopes focuses his pastoral letter on the specific vocation, the unique call, to be a priest. To be read at […]
April 9, 2018

Anti-trafficking charity appoints Jacinta as East Anglia rep

Catholic anti-trafficking charity the Medaille Trust has appointed a representative in the Diocese of East Anglia ' one of four new posts. Jacinta Goode (pictured above), […]
March 26, 2018

Vigil was no pitchforked mob on the streets of Norwich

As the 40 Days for Life Vigil outside the abortion clinic at Bowthorpe in Norwich ended yesterday (March 25) , Fr Henry Whisenant reflects on some […]
March 22, 2018

Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Congress visit from East Anglia

A National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Congress “Adoremus” is to be held in Liverpool in September including visitors from East Anglia. Rebecca Bretherton and Fr Tony Rogers […]
March 15, 2018

Taverham couple get on their tandem to raise cash

Two octogenarian tandem cyclists, from Taverham, have visited 42 different Norwich churches in just six hours to raise almost £400 for Our Lady and St Walstans […]
March 8, 2018

Visit strengthens East Anglia links with Cambodia

Links between East Anglia and Cambodia are going from strength to strength and the latest visit in February saw 15 parishioners, mostly from St Etheldreda's Ely […]