Bishop Stephen welcomes the return of staff and pupils with few words of introduction and a special blessing – and Mrs Mary O’Duffin, Dunkeld’s RE Advisor, looks at how schools are adapted …
Mission Awareness
Remember #WeAreStillHere! EARLIER this year, Pope Francis highlighted his passion for the Pontifical Mission Societies—known here as Missio Scotland—saying the mission is at the heart and identity of the Church, and the …
Livestream Mass continues from Lawside
Following our series of live-streams to YouTube during lockdown – we have now installed a permanent camera (above), and a new sound system, in St Joseph’s Chapel at Lawside. We are grateful …
Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land is planned for 2021
Fr Tobias Okoro, parish priest at St Fergus’, Forfar, and St St Anthony’s, Kirriemuir, has announced that the Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, planned for Autumn 2020, has been postponed due …
Bishops are united against nuclear weapons
During his historic visit to Japan last year, Pope Francis declared that “the use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, just as the possession of atomic weapons is immoral”. …
New Hate Crime – “protect the freedom to disagree” – Bishops say
The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland has responded to the Scottish Government’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Bill. In a submission to the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee the Conference has stated that …
New lectionary for Scotland
Scotland’s Catholic Bishops have approved the preparation of a new Lectionary (a book of readings used at Mass) to update and replace the three volume Lectionary in use in the dioceses of …
Dundee parishioner joins Stella Maris as global charity adapts ministry in changing world
Stella Maris (Apostleship of the Sea) welcomed St Andrew’s Cathedral parishioner Maita Crowe as a new Board member at the Catholic charity’s recent virtual annual general meeting. Maita joined Glasgow-based James Muir …
Public Masses return in Dunkeld
On the Feast of Saint Bonaventur, Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ, at their first public Mass since the pandemic lockdown.