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March 25, 2021

Sarah speaks of family life on popular YouTube channel

  Sarah Ward, pro-life representative on the Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Commission, has featured on a popular YouTube channel called One of Nine. The channel […]
March 20, 2021

Bishop Alan blesses icon to launch Year of the Family

  Bishop Alan has celebrated a Mass and blessed an icon to inaugurate the Year of the Family, which began on March 19. The icon of […]
October 18, 2020

A new opportunity to use the gift of listening

The diocese is launching a new lay ministry to provide listening and prayer for those who are troubled. Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson from the Marriage and […]
October 13, 2020

Jess offers invitation to see fertility as a gift from God

Jess Beckett, the new Fertility Awareness Methods Co-ordinator for the Diocese, is inviting people to connect and contribute to her work. Jess also works part-time as […]
March 2, 2020

Church gives warm welcome to families at Rite of Election

Bishop Alan Hopes welcomed individuals and families from across the Diocese who are preparing to enter full communion with the Catholic Church at Easter. Priests and […]
October 31, 2019

Teachers take fresh look at Humanae Vitae

Teachers, priests and religious from around the diocese met recently at Newmarket to study the Church’s teaching on marriage and family life. Fr Paul Grogan of […]
June 12, 2019

Marriage and family life is celebrated at Mass in Norwich

Around 300 people attended the annual Marriage and Family Life Mass on Saturday June 8 at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich to celebrate the joy of […]
September 1, 2018

Marriage and family life celebrated at Walsingham

Marriage and family life are being celebrated at Walsingham this year through two major retreats: the Marriage and Family Life week and the Loving For Life […]
July 24, 2018

Norfolk Catholic couple celebrate 70 years of marriage

A Norfolk Catholic couple, who met each other as teenagers in 1944, have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with a party at St Helen’s Church in […]
June 20, 2018

Couples celebrate marriage and family life in Norwich

Bishop Alan Hopes has celebrated marriage and family life with over 60 couples and their families in an annual Mass at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich. […]
March 26, 2018

Vigil was no pitchforked mob on the streets of Norwich

As the 40 Days for Life Vigil outside the abortion clinic at Bowthorpe in Norwich ended yesterday (March 25) , Fr Henry Whisenant reflects on some […]
March 14, 2018

Explaining the role of the Marriage Tribunal

As a new national guide to the annulment process is published, Judicial Vicar Rev Simon Blakesley explains the work of the Marriage Tribunal in East Anglia. […]
June 23, 2017

Celebration of marriage and family life

Over 3,500 years of marriage were represented at the annual Marriage and Family Celebration Mass which took place on Saturday, June 17 at the Cathedral of […]