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June 28, 2022

Safeguarding training for all diocesan clergy

This summer has seen all the priests and deacons working in the Diocese of East Anglia attending sessions to continue their on-going safeguarding training. At the […]
June 27, 2022

Marriage Tribunal needs volunteer lay auditors

The Diocese of East Anglia Marriage Tribunal is seeking new volunteers to join its team of lay auditors to help in its work with marriage annulments […]
June 27, 2022

War in Ukraine touches world’s seafarers

The war in Ukraine might be 1,500 miles away from the UK, but Stella Maris port chaplains, such as Julian Wong, who covers East Anglia, have […]
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

Be first to read July Catholic East Anglia

The July 2022 edition of the Catholic East Anglia newspaper is now published online and paper copies will be available in parishes from Friday June 24. […]
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 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 21, 2022

Acle ecumenical walkers pray for workers

Acle Churches Together has held its traditional annual prayer walk, stopping at various venues in the village to pray for the work performed by  the staff employed within. The  walk, on Sunday June 12, was […]
June 20, 2022

Corpus Christi procession around cathedral in Norwich

A procession of the Blessed Sacrament took place on the streets around the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich on June 19, the Feast […]
June 18, 2022

Mark is ordained as a deacon at Westminster

Diocese of East Anglia seminarian Mark Ashwood from Norwich was ordained as a Deacon by Bishop Paul McAleenan at Westminster Cathedral on June 11, along with four […]
June 17, 2022

Summer pilgrimage opportunities for young people

Hamish MacQueen, Director of Diocesan Youth Service, writes about plans for upcoming youth pilgrimages this summer and next. We love taking groups of young people on […]
June 16, 2022

Montana sisters celebrate Queen’s Jubilee in style

The Sisters of The Grace and Compassion Benedictines at the Montana Care Home, led by the redoubtable Sister Thaya Moses, know how to give a party […]
June 14, 2022

Jubilee party, international Mass, garden praise

Latest news from across the Diocese of East Anglia includes a Jubilee party, an international Mass and Celebrate East Anglia. A Jubilee Afternoon Tea Party was […]