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The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) seeks to appoint an experienced, creative, and highly motivated Grant and Major Donor Fundraising Manager to lead fundraising and grant management across a global organisation dedicated to the teaching of Christian Meditation. Working to the Executive Director, you will interact with our decentralised finance, marketing and communications staf... Read More

Common Home TV, a Redemptorist digital media mission, based in Melbourne, Australia, today announce the release of its new four-part documentary series In the Shadow of the Holy Land: Identity and War, released throughout November and December. The series features in-depth conversations with key voices including Brother Peter Bray, FSC (former Vice-Chancellor of Bethlehem University), Fr David Neu... Read More

Starring: Jeremy Alan White, Jeremy Strong, Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Gaby Hoffman, David Krumholz, Paul Walter Hauser, Harrison Sloan Gilbertson, Grace Gummer, Mark Maron, Matthew Anthony Pellicano Jr. Directed by Scott Cooper. Bruce Springsteen is a significant figure in American and world music, 20th century, 21st-century. This is a portrait of Springsteen in 1981-1982 rather than a biograp... Read More

Gospel of 12 November 2025 John 17:20-26 At that time: Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and praying said, 'Holy Father, I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me... Read More

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at the Church of Saint Anselmo on the Aventine Hill in Rome on Tuesday, 11 November, to commemorate the 125th anniversary of its dedication and encourages the Benedictines in their mission. He invited the Benedictines to respond to the challenging times we live in, by placing Christ at the centre of their lives. "The sudden changes we are witnessing provoke and quest... Read More

My grandson recently had a shock when a sparrowhawk flew down into the garden and just failed to grab his budgerigar who was enjoying the afternoon sun. This incident underlined for me how comprehensive and yet how individual is God's love for all his creatures. Not even a pet budgie falls to the ground, or escapes from certain death, without His knowledge. Then along comes Anthony deStefano's ta... Read More

A couple of months ago, I was turning a corner to enter the temporary church beside Salford Cathedral when I came across two parishioners from a previous Mass discussing 'Critical Race Theory'. I was amazed and taken aback. It's not something I've ever heard discussed at the back of a church, even though the parish where I work has parishioners from over 50 different nations, several of those bein... Read More

Richard Solly, Campaigns and Advocacy Adviser of Jesuit Missions writes: At the Opening Ceremony, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev of Azerbaijan handed over to COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago. Babayev spoke of the finance deal made last year at COP29, which he said was inadequate but nonetheless a deal. Developing nations accepted a lower finance goal than they wanted so there is no excuse n... Read More

In war-torn Sudan, rape is likely being used as a weapon of war and simply being a woman there is "a strong predictor" of hunger, violence and death, the UN's gender equality agency warned today. "Women speaking to us from El Fasher, the heart of Sudan's latest catastrophe, tell us that they've endured starvation…displacement, rape and bombardment," Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for ... Read More

The annual remembrance service organised by the Combined Irish Regiments Association took place on 6th November at St Patrick and All Saints of Ireland Chapel, overspilling into the main body of Westminster Cathedral. Always held on the Thursday before Remembrance Sunday, this year the service fell on the Feast Day of All Saints of Ireland. Former Vicar General of the British Army, Mgr Phelim Rowl... Read More

Gospel of 11 November 2025 Matthew 25:31-40 At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, 'When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the... Read More

Vatican Media have launched a documentary today: 'Leo from Chicago' about the background of Robert Francis Prevost in his native United States. The film begins with his childhood in Dolton, through the memories of his brothers Louis and John, and continues among schools and universities, communities and parishes, featuring the voices of confreres, teachers, classmates, and longtime friends. Produc... Read More

Extensive conservation work has begun on one of the English Catholic Church's most unusual mausoleums. The tomb of Sir Richard Burton and his wife, Isabel, in the graveyard of St Mary Magdalen Church in Mortlake near Richmond, is shaped like a Bedouin tent. It is being fully renovated for the first time in more than three decades to prevent it from falling into disrepair. Sir Richard was one o... Read More

Father Bede Mullens OP writes: We are based in Kingston, which mercifully was left largely unscathed by the hurricane. Nonetheless, some of our poorer parishioners in August Town, an impoverished neighbourhood, did lose roofs, walls, and in one case, pretty much the whole house; St Martin's Missions funding has enabled purchase of materials for repairs. We are also conscious that, after recent pan... Read More