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December 20, 2017

A Christmas message from Bishop Alan

As we prepare to celebrate the Christmas Season I send my warmest greetings to you all! I hope that it will be a time of great […]
December 20, 2017

Twins use birthday gifts to help transform lives

Two 11-year-oldPeterboroughtwins have asked friends and family for donations instead of birthday presents to ensure families living in poverty receive life changing gifts this Christmas. Catholic […]
December 18, 2017

Catholic East Anglia set to be published monthly

The Catholic East Anglia newspaper will be going monthly from January 2018 to help get news out across the diocese of East Anglia more quickly, and […]
December 15, 2017

Felixstowe seafarers given Communion after loss at sea

Fr John Barnes, parish priest of St Felix Church, Felixstowe provided Holy Communion to a group of seafarers on board their ship after their crew mate […]
December 13, 2017

Be first to read January 2018 Catholic East Anglia paper

The January 2018 edition of the Catholic East Anglia newspaper is now available online and contains news and pictures of an historic ordination, a Christmas message […]
December 13, 2017

Mass in Rome and organ donation consent debate starts

Latest news from the Diocese of East Anglia includes a Mass in Rome and the public debate on presumed consent for organ donations. Three seminarians who […]
December 12, 2017

Our Lady of Walsingham amidst Oxford Street shoppers

Our Lady of Walsingham was processed down London's Oxford Street amidst the Christmas shoppers on Friday December 8. St Patrick's Soho Square Parish, along with the […]
December 12, 2017

Was Norfolk ‘vagabond of God’ a saint?

Known as The Vagabond of God, former Norfolk schoolboy John Bradburne is the subject of a new biography and a growing movement to have him canonised […]
December 11, 2017

Swaffham TV nuns pass on good habits

Channel 5 reality TV series Bad Habits ' Holy Orders, took five party-loving, selfie-obsessed, young women and challenged them to live in the Norfolk convent of […]
December 9, 2017

Ordination of Filipino priest is first for East Anglia Diocese

Deacon Jaylord Magpuyo became the first priest to be ordained in the Diocese of East Anglia for four years and the first-ever Filipino, at the Cathedral […]
December 8, 2017

World Youth Day Panama 2019 – here we come

Young people from across the Diocese of East Anglia gathered in Newmarket on November 26 to launch its preparations for going to World Youth Day in […]
December 7, 2017

Gold medal winning gardener retires from Cathedral

Zanna Foley Davies has retired as head gardener at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist after eight years in which she took the Narthex garden […]
December 6, 2017

Youth band keep the Ignite flame growing in Norwich

The Ignite Team ran an ‘Ignite Festival in a Day’ at the Cathedral Narthex in Norwich on Saturday November 25, taking many of the elements that […]
December 5, 2017

Bishop Alan blesses new stained glass windows

Bishop Alan celebrated Mass at the Montana Care Home at Great Barton, near Bury St Edmunds on November 20, the Feast of St Edmund. The home […]
December 4, 2017

2018 East Anglia Yearbook and Calendar published

The Diocese of East Anglia 2018 Yearbook and Liturgical Calendar is now available online and will be in parishes from December 9th. The annual printed publication, […]