Latest News

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

March 3, 2019

Children’s choir, refugee rucksacks and dinner speech

Latest news from across the Diocese of East Anglia includes an inter-faith children’s choir, a refugee rucksack project and an entertaining Norwich dinner. The All Souls […]
March 1, 2019

Dowry Tour reaches St John’s Cathedral in Norwich

The two-year Dowry Tour, intended to help prepare Catholics spiritually for England’s re-dedication as the Dowry of Mary in 2020, reached St John’s Cathedral in Norwich […]
February 25, 2019

Suffolk parish’s Calais refugee support after Pope’s plea

A hugely generous response from St Edmunds Bungay and Harleston to the Pope’s “moral imperative” to assist the exiled, the migrant, and the refugee, enabled parishioner […]
February 23, 2019

Tributes paid to much-loved Gorleston Sacristan

St Peter the Apostle in Gorleston was crowded on Wednesday February 6 for the funeral of long-serving and much-loved Sacristan, Bernard Power. Two of St Peter’s […]
February 22, 2019

Charity carols, Catenian dinner and Holocaust memorial

Latest news from across the Diocese of East Anglia includes charity carols in King’s Lynn, a Catenian dinner and a Holocaust memorial day. The Syro Malabar […]
February 22, 2019

Focus on slavery at St John’s Cathedral talk in Norwich

Modern-day slavery and the work of the Medaille Trust was the subject of an engaging talk at St John’s Cathedral in early February reports Sarah Ebelewicz. […]
February 21, 2019

East Anglian young people engage with CAFOD work

Young people across East Anglia are getting involved in supporting the work of Catholic international development charity CAFOD reports Alex Savage. A group of Sixth Formers […]
February 20, 2019

First chance to read the March Catholic East Anglia paper

The March 2019 edition of the Catholic East Anglia newspaper is now available online and contains news of East Anglia pilgrims joining Pope Francis in Panama […]
February 19, 2019

Jamaica mission trip is transforming experience

A group from across the Diocese of East Anglia travelled with Fr Michael Johnstone in January to spend two weeks working with the Missionaries of the […]
February 19, 2019

Sorrow expressed as priest found guilty of child abuse

Father Francis McDermott, a priest of the Diocese of Northampton, has been found guilty of 18 counts of child sexual abuse following a trial at Aylesbury […]
February 18, 2019

Fr Philip John installed as new Cambridge parish priest

On the Feast of Saints Paul Miki and Companions (February 6), Fr Philip John was installed as the new Parish Priest of Saint Philip Howard, Cherry […]
February 16, 2019

Candlemas is Downham Market evangelisation team first

For Candlemas, Downham Market parishioners were invited to a Mass to celebrate all those who help in the parish.  Rebecca Bretherton reports. On a snowy Feast […]
February 14, 2019

Charities receive £10,000 from Clare Priory Craft Fair

Over £10,000 had been presented to a host of charities following the successful Clare Priory Craft Fair in Suffolk last summer, with another one to follow […]
February 13, 2019

Big support as new primary school bids are submitted

The Diocese of East Anglia has submitted bids to open three new voluntary-aided Catholic primary schools in Cambridgeshire, backed by over 730 expressions of interest gathered […]
February 12, 2019

Cathedral in Norwich bids a fond farewell to Fr Seelan

St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich bid a sad farewell to much-loved priest Fr Arockilya Seelan on Sunday January 27, reports Jean Scotter. “Go, eat the fat, […]