Restoration

Faith Formation

Following a meeting with priests of Dunkeld Diocese, Scotland’s Landings Team have been working hard to provide resources in support of their work reaching out to those, especially at this time, who may be searching for a way back to the Faith. Landings UK North coordinator, Margaret Johnson, was delighted when ‘working from home’ turned out to to be ‘working …

St Mary’s, Lochee – the work of the Church continues…

Press releases

Fr Mark Cassidy, St Mary’s Lochee, told Dunkeld News: “We were asked to hold the final public Masses in our churches last Thursday, 19th March, the Solemnity of St Joseph. I am sorry if this caught some of you unaware and you turned up for Mass in the days following. We were only informed of this on Wednesday and it …

St Mungo’s PS – SCIAF Campaign

Mission work

St Mungo’s, Aloa, 6/7 class successfully planned and led a fundraising campaign for SCIAF during Lent. They were slightly concerned that they would not be as successful as previous years as Ash Wednesday fell in our February half term and then the snow came and interrupted their initial activities. All that aside, they still managed to reschedule and change events …

Highly commended at St Thomas’, Arbroath

Press releases

Celebrations are underway in Angus as St Thomas Catholic Primary School Arbroath Pupil, Stanislaw Rakowski, received a Highly Commended award in the British Council Commonwealth Short Story competition. More than 3,000 stories from a host of Commonwealth countries around the world took part in this year’s competition on the theme of Peace. The judging panel selected the top three stories …

Afternoon for Life

Press releases

Shortly after his installation as Bishop of Dunkeld, Bishop Stephen got into discussions to set up a local pro-life conference to maintain the spotlight on pro-life issues in the Diocese. In conjunction with SPUC Dundee, the 4th Afternoon for Life was hosted by Bishop Stephen in the Pastoral Centre, Lawside Road, on Saturday 24th February. The conference came as the …

Council of the Laity – Minutes 11th February 2017

Lay Associations

DIOCESE OF DUNKELD: COUNCIL OF THE LAITY Minute of the second meeting of the Council of the Laity held in the Conference Room of the St Ninian’s Pastoral Institute, Lawside, Dundee, on Saturday 11 February 2017 at 11.00 am. Present: Fr J High (Chair), Fr J McCruden (Vice-Chair),Sr M Aladi, M Caswell, A Herron, J Galligan, J Joyce, A Kenny, …

Fr James Foley R.I.P.

Press releases

Fr James Foley died today, Thursday 9th June, 2016. He was born in Co. Tipperary and before coming to the Diocese of Dunkeld, was a member of the Society for African Missions (SMA Fathers). After his ordination in 1964, he served in the missions in Nigeria. In 1976 he was appointed Parish Priest of St Joseph’s Callander and four years …

Welcome

Scotland’s eight Catholic Bishops met Pope Francis in the Vatican this morning ( 27 September 2018) at the beginning of their Ad Limina (five-yearly) visit to Rome and thanked him for his support and prayers. After saying Mass at the tomb of St. Peter in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Bishops met Pope Francis for a 1 hour 40 minute private …