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Please send news articles and pictures for the diocesan newspaper and website to editor Keith Morris at keith.morris@rcdea.org.uk

August 21, 2019

First chance to read the September Catholic East Anglia

The September 2019 edition of the Catholic East Anglia newspaper is now available online and contains news and pictures from historic ordinations of priests and deacons […]
August 20, 2019

Catholic Social Teaching – the church’s best kept secret

It’s said that Catholic Social Teaching is the best kept secret of the Catholic Church. In the latest of her series of articles, Jacinta Goode begins […]
August 20, 2019

Felixstowe Stella Maris ship visitor reaches milestone

Felixstowe ship visitor and St Mark’s Ipswich parishioner, Julian Wong, reached a milestone in his ship-visiting ministry recently, with his 1,000th ship, the Suecia Seaways. Julian […]
August 19, 2019

Three junior Sisters renew their vows at Norfolk convent

Three junior Sisters from the Daughters of Divine Charity, based in Norfolk, renewed their vows for another year on August 14. Sr M Renata Pivarnikova, Sr […]
August 14, 2019

Bungay priest has narrow escape as cross falls in storm

Bungay parish priest, Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, had a narrow escape at the weekend as violent winds blew a stone cross onto the roof of St Edmund’s […]
August 14, 2019

Norwich nun Sr Mary Richard is a real diamond

A well-known Norwich Catholic nun has celebrated an impressive 60 years of service with the Congregation of Jesus. Sr Mary Richard Prendergast, who has worked as […]
August 12, 2019

Schools’ Walsingham pilgrimage and netball champions

Latest news from East Anglia Catholic schools includes news of a Walsingham pilgrimage and county netball champions. Cambridge schools St Alban’s, St Laurence and St Bede’s […]
August 12, 2019

Creation Mass celebrated in South Norfolk home

Twenty parishioners aged from nine to 89 from all over the tiny parish of St Edmund Bungay and Harleston turned out on a rainy night in […]
August 9, 2019

Suffolk’s Fr John writes Saint Jude at Home reflections

East Anglia priest Fr John Warrington has written the latest set of reflections called Saint Jude at Home on behalf of the Shrine of Saint Jude […]
August 6, 2019

Chloe is honoured for 30 years of service to toddlers

Parents and children have helped to honour the unstinting service of Chloe Gill who, over 30 years, has run a parents and toddlers group at Our […]
August 5, 2019

Acknowledged Walsingham history book is republished

An updated version of the standard historical work on pilgrims and pilgrimage to Walsingham, including new research on the possible discovery of the original Our Lady […]
August 1, 2019

Suffolk nun awarded medal for lifetime of teaching

Suffolk nun, Sr Berchmans Conway, has been awarded the prestigious Benedict Medal by St Mary’s University, London in recognition of a lifetime of teaching and promoting […]
July 31, 2019

First Communions, Walsingham pilgrimage, recycling

Latest news from across the Diocese of East Anglia includes bumper First Holy Communions, a Walsingham pilgrimage and a recycling idea. A bumper 30 children from […]
July 29, 2019

Walsingham retreats on culture, prayer and marriage

A series of weekend retreats are being offered by the sisters of the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham at Dowry House in Walsingham on subjects […]
July 23, 2019

Alive in Faith summer newsletter is out now

The summer Alive in Faith newsletter is now available online and contains news of funds received and details of how it is being spent on parish […]