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Gospel of 5 December 2025 Matthew 9:27-31 At that time: As Jesus passed on from Capernaum, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, 'Have mercy on us, Son of David.' When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, 'Do you believe that I am able to do this?' They said to him, 'Yes, Lord.' Then he touched their eyes, saying, 'According to your faith be it done to you.'... Read More

On 3 December 2025, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See delivered a statement during the reconvened 11th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly. Reiterating its urgent appeal for an immediate end to the war in Ukraine, the Holy See highlighted the devastating impact of the prolonged conflict on children, families, and civilian infra... Read More

The death has occurred of Fr John Buckley in Cork, on December 3rd 2025 peacefully at Marymount, in the presence of his loving family. Fr John, who served for years with the St Patrick's Missionary Society, Kiltegan, in Niigeria and also in the Dioceses of Westminster and Portsmouth, was brother of the late Bernadette, Theresa, Julia (Forsythe) and Margaret. Fondly remembered by his loving niece... Read More

CAFOD's Jubilee Icon is visiting "Places of Hope" across the Diocese of Westminster this December. The Icon, commissioned to celebrate the Jubilee Year, was created by artist Mulugeta Araya in Ethiopia, for the Catholic Church in England and Wales. To see a full list of the places where the Icon will be displayed, please see here. The Icon will be finishing its tour of the Diocese in Westminster C... Read More

Students from St John Bosco Arts College, Croxteth, recently took part in a school sleepover to raise vital funds for a Liverpool-based homeless and housing charity. 45 Year 7 students took part in the sleepover that raised £150 for The Whitechapel Centre and saw them take part in a variety of activities and discussions about homelessness so they could truly understand the positive impact their f... Read More

A report presenting the results of the Commission's work has been released today. It rules out admitting women to the diaconate understood as a degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders, but says that it is not currently possible "to formulate a definitive judgment, as in the case of priestly ordination." "The status quaestionis of historical research and theological investigation, as well as their ... Read More

This year's World Aids Day Mass - Journeying Together for an HIV-free World - will take place at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 3AH on Saturday 6 December at 3pm. The Celebrant will be Canon Pat Browne. Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe OP, Patron of Catholics for Aids Prevention and Support (CAPS) will give the homily. The global HIV response is facing its mos... Read More

Gospel of 4 December 2025 Matthew 7:21, 24-27 At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: 'Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord", will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 'Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds bl... Read More

Pope Leo was accompanied by 81 journalists on his return flight to Rome from his Apostolic Journey to Türkiye and Lebanon on Tuesday. In a wide-ranging press conference he began by greeting everyone and thanking all them for their hard work reporting on the trip. Speaking in English, Italian and Spanish the Holy Father reflected on his journey, the role of the Holy See, which works "behind-th... Read More

As the Pope travelled back to the Vatican from Lebanon, the President of Bosnia was arriving in the UK to mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Agreement. Dayton marked the final close of the wars of independence in former Yugoslavia and especially a conflict where Bosnian Muslims had been neglected by the West leaving them open to persecution and, indeed, genocide at the hands of... Read More

Two eloquent Palestinian speakers launched the Amos Trust Christmas appeal at St James's Piccadilly, last Saturday, in an evening of deeply contrasting moods and emotions. Gazan journalist Hala Hanina from Palestinian Deep Dive told a terrible Christmas story of a "brilliant, beautiful, powerful" young woman called Sara who lost all her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home on Christmas ... Read More

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has condemned an Israeli raid on the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in the occupied West Bank, warning that pressure on Palestinian civil society has reached alarming levels. Israeli security forces raided the organisation's offices in Ramallah and Hebron on 1 December, vandalising property and detaining staff. According to OHCHR, people present in the b... Read More

St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy, St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy, and Hope Academy - all part of All Saints Multi Academy Trust - came together for a special Jubilee pilgrimage on World Children's Day, 20 November. Each academy began its pilgrimage from its own school site around Newton-le-Willows, processing towards St Mary and St John's Catholic Church as a way of living out this year's Jubi... Read More

Christmas can be a challenging time for seafarers. They miss spending this special time of the year with their family. Many struggle to cope with homesickness. Christmas just doesn't feel like Christmas when you're thousands of miles away from home and can't be with the people you love. But seafarers arriving on ships at the ports in the UK are never forgotten, thanks to the port chaplains and ... Read More