Justice & Peace Scotland has announced its support for the Scotland Demands Better campaign, a new national movement coordinated by the Poverty Alliance and backed by more than 100 organisations across the country. The campaign highlights the stark reality that over one million people in Scotland are currently living in poverty and calls for urgent action. Its central demands include: better jobs, …
Priesthood and Religious Life
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Dear Brothers and Sisters, Salva me bona crux! Save me, good cross! According to tradition, this is the dying prayer of St Andrew. He said these words as he prepared to give his life for his faith in Jesus. But in the Roman world, the cross was anything but “good.” It was a cruelinstrument of …
Dunkeld News – September ’25
It is a joy for me to welcome you back to the Dunkeld News, our journal in Dunkeld that helps bind the people and parishes of our diocese together: sharing news, events and taking strength from each other’s energy and faith. I would like to see the Dunkeld News go from strength to strength. It is the diversity of our …
Canonisation for Carlo Acutis
Writing in his parish newsletter, Mgr Basil O’Sullivan at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Auchterarder, anticipates Sunday’s Canonisation of Carlo Acutis: “A Saint of, and for, our time; and he was British born. Carlo Acutis was born in London of Italian parents, May 1991, and baptised in the church in Our Lady of Dolours, Chelsea, a few weeks later. His …
Young Dunkeld Pilgrims in Rome!
As part of the wider 2025 Jubilee events for “Pilgrims of Hope”, the Jubilee of Youth took place from 28th July to 3rd August. This summer, four young pilgrims from Dunkeld – siblings Charis Soares, Arianne, Alisha, and Shane McCrosson – travelled from Cupar, Dundee and Auchterarder to join over 1 million Catholic young people from more than 146 countries, …
National Youth Pilgrimage at Perth
This annual event takes place on Saturday 20 September, 2025. The gathering will be in Perth this year, now meeting at St John the Baptist’s RC Church, Melville Street, Perth, PH1 5PY. Join us as we gather Scotland’s young Catholics and journey through the city of Perth as PILGRIMS OF HOPE! We will walk together to the ancient St John’s …
Clerical changes
These appointments will take effect on 29th August, unless otherwise stated. Retirements: Appointments:
St Stephen’s Parish Marks Jubilee for Youth with Call to Action
Young people from the parish of St Stephen’s, Blairgowrie, have been invited to take a leading role in the Jubilee Year celebrations, following a call from parish priest, Fr Gregory Umunna. Fr Gregory highlighted the parish’s commitment to the Jubilee, noting that the parish has already marked ten out of the sixteen sectors of society recognised in the celebrations. “Here …