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October 22, 2023

Two new members join the Ignite Youth Team

Two new members have joined the Ignite Youth Team from September for a year. They are UEA master’s student Adam Dodd and Peterborough parishioner Alexander Thanickal, […]
October 18, 2023

Norfolk churches urged to join shoebox project

Churches and families across Norfolk are being urged to pack shoeboxes with Christmas gifts for needy children across the world in partnership with Operation Christmas Child. […]
October 11, 2023

Bishop meets lay chaplains from East Anglia schools

Bishop Peter Collins met with Lay Chaplains to Diocese of East Anglia Catholic Secondary Schools and the Chaplain to St Bede’s Inter Church School, on Friday […]
October 10, 2023

Penafrancia Pilgrimage takes to water on the Broads

The 13th Annual Pilgrimage and Feast celebrating the Philippines’ devotion to Our Lady of Penafrancia took place in the twin Norfolk villages of Hoveton and Wroxham […]
October 9, 2023

Priest retires, fundraiser success, harvest festival

Latest news of interest across the Diocese of East Anglia includes a farewell to a retiring parish priest, a successful fundraiser and a harvest festival. Parishioners […]
October 8, 2023

Bishop Peter celebrates with King’s Lynn school

Bishop Peter Collins visited St Martha’s RC Primary School in King’s Lynn to celebrate its Gospel Assembly on Monday September 18, reports headteacher Rachel Edwards. “Following […]
October 6, 2023

Preview video as Synod of Bishops begins in Rome

As the 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome begins, England and Wales representatives Fr Jan Nowotnik and theologian and former Cambridge academic Prof Anna Rowlands, have […]
October 5, 2023

Pope Francis plea on the global climate crisis is backed

Pope Francis has released his Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, ‘Praise God’, to “clarify and complete” what he started in 2015 with his Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ […]
October 2, 2023

Does God hear me when I cry, asks Fr Alvan?

Does God hear me when I cry, asks Fr Alvan Ibeh in his latest Voice of Hope series. Have you noticed that the year is gradually […]
September 30, 2023

750 pupils from across Diocese attend Schools Mass

Around 750 pupils from all 28 Catholic schools across the Diocese of East Anglia gathered in St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich on Friday September […]
September 29, 2023

Bishop helps Suffolk Historic Churches Trust celebrate

Bishop Peter Collins has taken part in an ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving for 50 years of Suffolk Historic Churches Trust, held at St Edmundsbury Cathedral on […]
September 28, 2023

Yarmouth youth Faith Club trip away from the seaside

The Faith Club for children at St Peter’s, Gorleston and St Mary’s, Great Yarmouth Parish visited Thetford for its annual summer outing in late August reports […]
September 26, 2023

Be the first to read October Catholic East Anglia

The October 2023 edition of the Catholic East Anglia newspaper is now published online and paper copies will be available in parishes later this week. The […]
September 25, 2023

New Rector of Walsingham National Shrine is inducted

Fr Robert Billing  was inducted as the new Rector of the Catholic National Shrine at Walsingham on Sunday September 24 during a Mass led by Bishop […]
September 22, 2023

Winning prayer, river trip and long-service award

Latest news of interest across the Diocese of East Anglia includes a winning prayer, a community boat trip and a long-service award. Congratulations to Chumdiuto Kenechukwu […]