General Secretary of the Synod will be keynote speaker at online seminar

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Entitled Synodality in the Life and Mission for the Church – one one the Church’s newest Cardinals, His Eminence Mario Grech, will be the keynote speaker at the Bishops of Scotland’s forthcoming Colloquium on Synodality. Other speakers include Catherine Joseph Droste OP, Ed Morgan, Sara Parvis, Guy Mansini OSB and Anne Marie McGuan RSM. The online event will take place …

Safeguarding Audit will take place in our diocese during February

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The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) will visit the Diocese of Dunkeld in February to complete its latest audit of Safeguarding practice at diocesan level in Scotland. SCIE brings significant experience of conducting adult and child safeguarding audits in English diocesan and wider organisational contexts. The Independent Review Group (IRG), chaired by Baroness Helen Liddel, initiated this practical review audit …

Dunkeld’s New Honorary Canon

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Fr Andrew Clark has been appointed an honorary Canon of the Diocese of Dunkeld. Fr Andrew has served as a Chaplian to the prison service since 1994, including 3 years as Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain to HM Prison Service in England and Wales, and for the last 18 years as Chaplain in Glenochil prison, from which he has recently retired. …

Safeguarding Agency launches a recruitment campaign

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Michael McGrath KSG, Assistant General Secretary to Bishops’ Conference of Scotland has announced that an important stage in the establishment of the new Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency (SCSSA) has been reached, with the launch of a recruitment campaign for Board Directors for the agency. “We are keen for all in the Catholic community (and beyond) to know that Lady Rae is actively …

First Anniversary Mass for Bishop Emeritus Vincent Logan

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Canon Kevin Golden VG, Administrator at St Andrew’s Cathedral, celebrate the First Anniversary Mass for Bishop Vincent Logan on Friday, 14th January, 2022 at 1pm in St Andrew’s Cathedral. Mass for Bishop Emeritus Vincent Logan. The Mass will also be live streamed – www.dunkelddiocese.co.uk/livestream-mass One year ago Bishop Logan’s Requiem was among many that were celebrated with restricted numbers in our …

Epiphany 2022

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In the Gospel of St Matthew we hear about the Magi, the wise men. Each part of the story has a symbolic meaning as well as a historic reality. Following a star, these Magi would have been stargazers, without a telescope; astrologers, rather than astronomers; pagans – Zoroastrians – from the land we know as Iraq today. They could tell …