PVG certificates have to be updated every 4 years and a drop-in session has been arranged at the Diocesan Centre on Monday 23rd October 2017 from 10am to 2pm. This is not a training session, simply an opportunity to update PVG certification. Those who hold PVG certificates are asked to bring along a completed form and provide certain identity documents: …
Dunkeld celebrates Final Profession
Bishop Stephen celebrates Mass in Thanksgiving for Sister Maria Kosisochukwu’s final professions which took place in Nigeria earlier this month. The Mass was celebrated in St Joseph’s Chapel, at the convent where the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary serve the diocese. Sisters from the Missionaries of Charity join in the occasion with representatives of parishes from throughout the …
Diocesan 6th Year Conference
Kilgraston School hosted the Diocese of Dunkeld Annual Conference for Catholic Secondary Schools. Four of the Diocesan Catholic schools participated. These were St John’s High School Dundee, St Paul’s High, Dundee and St John’s Academy, Perth. Over 200 pupils, a large number of teaching staff, six priests and two bishops came together as a community to discuss the fundamental issues …
Fatima Statue visits Dundee
Following the Consecration of Scotland to Our Lady – Bishop Stephen celebrated Mass at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee. In this centennial year of the apparitions at Fatima, the bishops of Scotland had organised that a statue our Our Lady of Fatima, bought and blest in Fatima, would be taken to every Cathedral in the country.
Papal Award for Church Journalist, teacher and youth worker
Bishop Stephen Robson, Bishop of Dunkeld, presented the ‘Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice’ Medal to Mr Andrew Mitchell at the end of Mass in St John the Baptist’s RC Church, Perth, on Sunday 6th August. The Papal Medal, also known as the ‘Cross of Honour’, is the highest that can be awarded by the Pope to a lay person for distinguished …
Scottish Catholic Heritage Collection – new curator
The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland has announced the appointment of Dr Alison Burke as Curator of the Scottish Catholic Heritage Collection at Blairs Museum. Dr Burke was previously Creative Project Co-ordinator with Aberdeen City Council where she started in 2017 to build creative networks in Education in Aberdeen, working with arts based projects in the city’s schools. She has also …
We must fight the ‘culture of death’
Each year, around the Feast of the Visitation of our Lady, the Catholic Church in Scotland celebrates the Day for Life, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the meaning and value of human life at every stage, and in every condition. Human life is a sacred and precious gift from God and must be treated with the upmost respect. …
New chaplain appointed to Dundee and Abertay Universities
Bishop Stephen has announced the appointment of Fr Gregory Murphy OP as Chaplain to the University Catholics of the University Catholics of Dundee and Abertay as from the beginning of September of this year in succession to Fr Michael Carrie. He will be assisted by Deacon Charles Hendry and two of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Fr …
New Vicar Episcopal for Education
Bishop Stephen has announced the appointment of the important post of Vicar Episcopal for Education, in succession to Mgr Ken McCaffrey. The new Vicar Episcopal will be Fr Tom Shields PhB STL PhD. Fr Tom will be eminently qualified for this post with his academic and pastoral background and be able to fullfil this ministry of support in the Diocese …