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Fr Anthony Chantry, National Director of Missio writes: In a special video message our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, invites you to take part in World Mission Sunday on 19 October. Pope Leo is urging every Catholic and every parish across the globe to unite in prayer and practical support for missionaries who work alongside communities in need in the most remote and troubled parts of our world. I... Read More

A parish priest who defied evacuation demands to leave Gaza City a few weeks ago, has called on his flock to "forgive all those who have failed", as he hopes the ceasefire will bring an end to this "atrocious war". The ceasefire in Gaza took effect on Friday (10th October) after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of the 20-point peace plan brokered by Donald Trump, with the next phases st... Read More

The title of Episode 72 of the All Kinds of Catholic podcast is: 'I am a daughter of the Most High God.' The words are taken from this week's guest, Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity, Sr Marie-Kolbe Zamora. This statement was part of her thoughtful and heartfelt response to a question about where women find themselves in the Church and in the world. Jenny Hayward-Jones, who works for CAFOD, j... Read More

At the end of September, the Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden hosted a community health check day in their parish hall, in partnership with the Brent Health Matters programme, a Brent Council and NHS initiative focused on improving access to healthcare. The event was coordinated by Caritas Westminster and supported by Fr Stephen Willis, Dean and Parish Priest of the shrine. The programme offers fre... Read More

Gospel of 14 October 2025 Luke 11:37-41 At that time: While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table. The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner. And the Lord said to him, 'Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You fools! Did not he who... Read More

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev Prof Dr Jerry Pillay welcomed the news on Monday 13 October, of the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. "We join their families and communities in celebrating their return to their loved ones, and the end of this painful separation and period of acute uncertainty," said Pillay. "We welcome the fulfilment of this first step on... Read More

Neha Shah, vice-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, hailed the 'largest protest movement in British History', as hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of central London on Saturday, to mark two years since the start of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. An estimated 600,000 people bearing flags and banners (often with arresting and witty art) marched from the Embankment to Whi... Read More

More than half a million people took part in Saturday's march for Gaza - the 32nd National March since 7 October. The Christian bloc gathered for prayers before the march at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in Shaftsbury Avenue, (where Martin Luther King Jr gave his his first sermon in the UK in 1961.) Prayers led by Rev Helen Burnett, CoE Vicar in Chardon, Southwark Diocese. Naomi Orrell from th... Read More

Despite being driven from his home by jihadists as a child and living a rudderless life as a refugee, a young man thanked a Catholic charity in front of hundreds of people for giving him direction - by providing a university scholarship. As a child Yohana Yaqoob Abdeesh Al-Zeebaree lived in the northern Iraqi city of Duhok in 2014, when jihadists from Daesh (ISIS) overran the Nineveh Plains and be... Read More

Sunday, 12 October, marked the start of the World Week of Prayer for Peace, originally a Christian event started in 1974 and now open to all faith traditions. Resources are produced each year to help communities come together and pray and reflect on making peace, in the spirit of its original Chair Dr Edward Carpenter, former Dean of Westminster Abbey: 'The peace of the world must be prayed for by... Read More

What hope is there when your country is invaded? What hope is there when you and your family are thrown out of their home by the invading army? What hope is there when you are sent to a forced labour factory? What hope is there when you are arrested and then brutally interrogated for providing help and spiritual comfort to your fellow forced labour workers? What hope is there when you face executi... Read More

Gospel of 13 October 2025 Matthew 5:1-12a At that time: Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are ... Read More

The election of Pope Leo XIV signals a defining moment for the Catholic Church. As he steps onto the world stage, the first pontiff ever to hail from the United States inherits the throne of St Peter, the legacy of Pope Francis, and the challenges of a rapidly changing Church. In Pope Leo XIV, veteran Vatican National Catholic Reporter correspondent Christopher White delivers an authoritative acco... Read More

During Good Money Week (6 - 12 October) Sixteen religious, associates and friends met at the FCJ Spirituality and eco-justice centre in Euston, London, together with seven participants who joined via zoom, for the JPIC Links conference: 'Changing futures' (Transforming Global Finance for Development) The day was held just after the Jubilee of Consecrated Life which Pope Leo XIV celebrated with th... Read More