Our Commitment to Safeguarding What is safeguarding? Safeguarding is the shared responsibility of everyone to ensure the safety and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults. It is also about ensuring the professional and safe behaviour of everyone who has a duty of care within our Catholic communities whether ordained or lay and whether in a paid or volunteer …
Glasgow’s new archbishop
Pope Francis has today (Friday 4 February 2022) appointed Bishop William Nolan, as Archbishop of Glasgow. The new Archbishop will succeed Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who died in January 2021. Bishop Nolan is currently the Bishop of Galloway. Reacting to the announcement, Bishop Nolan said;“I feel overwhelmed by the trust Pope Francis is putting in me by appointing me as Archbishop of Glasgow. …
Reception of Remains – followed by Holy Mass for Fr Colin Golden
6pm, Thursday 9th December, 2021, at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Perth – celebrant Bishop Stephen Robson. The original livestream has been updated. The Catholic community of Perth had been well served by St John’s Church, Melville Street which opened in 1832 and by St Mary’s Kinnoull which opened as a Redemptorist Monastery in 1869. However, after World War II, it became apparent …
Parishes are saddened to learn of the death of Father Colin Golden
News of Fr Colin Golden’s death was announced at Sunday Masses in parishes across Dunkeld – many of these parishes had their own fond memories of the popular priest. When Fr Colin was ordained on June 24th, 1998, in the parish of Ss Leonard and Fergus’, Dundee it have might have been said that he was a late vocation to …
Anniversary Mass for Mgr Hendry
On 30th April 2021, Holy Mass will be celebrated at 12noon in St Mary Magdalene’s to pray for the repose of the soul of Mgr Hendry on the first anniversary of his death. Mgr Hendry’s death occurred at the start of the first lockdown and, with churches closed, no Requiem Mass was permitted under the COVID-19 restrictions. The parish priest …
Bishop Stephen’s message to the UCM
FROM THE UCM NATIONAL SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR Dear Ladies of the UCM I do hope you are well! It has been so hard on us all this past year and I know we are all looking forward, please God to opening our churches soon and resume the normal pursuits of our Catholic lives before the pandemic afflicted us all. I …
A Letter of Hope
Dear Brothers and Sisters, As Christmas approaches, we, the Bishops of Scotland, wish to share with you some reflections on our present situation and offer reasons for hope, as we live through these difficult times. Firstly, we affirm the centrality of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father who became incarnate of the Holy Spirit and was born …
Catholic Education Week – 2020
Jesus Christ: the Way, the Truth and the Life Catholic Education Week 16th-30th November 2020 My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Each year around this time, we celebrate Catholic Education Week. During this week we: celebrate the God-given talents and achievements of our young people; acknowledge the hard work and faith witness of the staff in our schools; mark …
Perth clergyman’s short guide touches this moment in history – ‘Prayer in times of hardship’
Whilst frantic shoppers have been stockpiling food and toilet rolls on their visits to the supermarket, one Perth clergyman realised that there are people across the nation with a very different kind of hunger. The Reverend Len Moir, a Permanent Deacon in the Diocese of Dunkeld, has just published a short book, ‘Prayer in times of hardship’ offering support to …