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The BBC Scotland documentary ‘Priest School’ which will be broadcast on the new BBC Scotland channel on Sunday 19th April will now be broadcast at the slightly later time of 10.15pm. Last year, the Bishops’ Conference agreed to grant the TV production company Solus Productions access to the Pontifical Scots College in order to produce an hour-long documentary. The programme …
Archbishop Leo Cushley, together with the other members of the Scottish Church Leaders Forum on the Joint Statement by Leaders of Churches across Britain and Ireland, welcomed this Statement by the Leaders of Churches from across the nations of Britain and Ireland: God’s world is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. In the nations that make up Britain and Ireland …
Scotland’s national Catholic newspaper will be free this week in response to the suspension of public Masses in churches throughout the country. The Scottish Catholic Observer, which has been keeping the faithful informed since 1885, has distributed the newspaper to parishes across Scotland, waiving the cover price this week as a goodwill gesture. Churches across Scotland announced on Wednesday March …
Dunkeld Diocese has welcomed an almost unanimous decision to keep Catholic voting rights on Dundee City Council’s education committee. The decision came after Independent councillor Gregor Murray called for Church reps to be stripped of such powers, a motion that was overwhelmingly quashed by 26 votes to two. Cllr Murray, a former convener of the children and families services committee …
Hundreds of parishioners are expected to attend a special Liturgy of Welcome followed by Solemn Sung Mass with Bishop Stephen Robson in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee at 7pm on Wednesday 4th of September, as the relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux arrive in Dunkeld for the first time as part of an historic three-week tour of Scotland’s eight Catholic dioceses. …
Bishop Stephen has announced the following clergy appointments: Mgr. Canon Neil Gallagher, currently parish priest of SS Leonard and Fergus and St Columba’s to become Parish Priest of St Bride’s Pitlochry, Our Lady of Mercy, Aberfeldy and St Columba’s, Birnam. (starting 21 September 2019) Fr Leszek Wiecaszek SAC of St Joseph’s parish to move from St Joseph’s Dundee, to St …
Responding to the IRG report, Bishop Joseph Toal, who has responsibility for overseeing the work of the Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Service, said: “The Bishops of Scotland are grateful to Baroness Helen Liddell and members of the Independent Review Group for their work in externally reviewing and monitoring the Safeguarding practices of the Catholic Church in Scotland. We welcome their report and …
“The Catholic Church, in Scotland and around the world, has been the focus of considerable criticism in recent years about the safety and care of the most vulnerable in our communities. Here in Scotland, the Bishops had the courage to establish a Commission under former Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Dr Andrew McLellan, to conduct a review into the …