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A statement by Mary Robinson, Graça Machel, Helen Clark and Hina Jilani following their visit to the Middle East, 11-16 July 2026. We have just concluded a visit to the West Bank, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. From all that we have witnessed and heard, our inescapable conclusion is that the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu, and in particular Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, aim to make Pale... Read More

Many people keep journals to record events, process emotions, or understand life's challenges. For St Ignatius of Loyola, journaling served a deeper purpose. It became a way for him to listen attentively to God. Ignatius' Spiritual Diary, written in 1544 and 1545, is one of the most personal spiritual documents we have. Instead of listing daily events, he wrote about his inner experiences as he tr... Read More

Who are the new Catholics and what is their background? The recent rise in adults baptised or received into the Catholic Church has been analysed in a new survey by three leading academic researchers. Their findings were presented by Professor Francis Davis at a seminar hosted by Word on Fire at the recent We Believe festival, and at an earlier workshop organised by the Wessex Research seminar. Th... Read More

Gospel of 30 July 2026 Matthew 13:47-53 At that time: Jesus said to the crowd, 'Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and t... Read More

Pope Leo joined the 'Canticle of Peace' this evening at Borgo Laudato si', in the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo, with Andrea Bocelli and the ABF Voices choir, made up of 164 children from Uganda, the Holy Land and Italy. Organized by the Laudato si' Higher Education Center in partnership with the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, the gathering was part of the celebrations marking the 800th annive... Read More

The parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza, Fr Gabriel Romanelli, has renewed his appeal for urgent humanitarian assistance, warning that the situation in the Strip has deteriorated to the point where even the word "disastrous" is no longer sufficient to describe it. "When people say the situation here is disastrous, believe me: it really is disastrous-if anything, it calls for an even st... Read More

Sr Katrina Alton csjp, will be leading Pax Christi's Novena for Hiroshima, nine days of prayer for peace, in the lead up to the anniversaries of the nuclear bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This can be followed in audio or video format, through the following links: YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRERju264dbQ&si=zksh789Spo-dhg7D Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fL1pY... Read More

The Sinfonia of London, under the baton of its brilliant conductor John Wilson, brought the house down with its delivery of Respighi's 'Roman Trilogy' at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall last Friday It was a thrill to witness one of the world's greatest orchestras bring to life Respighi's rhapsodic evocation of the Eternal City in all its colour and variety, from the spiritual to the festive... Read More

Campaign group Care Not Killing has welcomed the comments from the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, saying that we should fix palliative care before considering assisted dying. Speaking at a London care home earlier today, he was asked about the assisted dying debate and commented, "personally I think there is something that needs to happen first and that's the fixing of the funding for palliative... Read More

This episode from All Kinds of Catholic is the first of two brought to you from the We Believe Festival, recorded over the weekend by Theresa Alessandro. Listen in to hear about the goodness, truth and beauty of our faith, expressed at the festival though liturgy, talks, music, dance and being together. Pod guests explain why they came, what they found, and how their faith is sustained in daily l... Read More

The WeBelieve Festival was held at the magnificent grounds of St Mary's College, Oscott for the second year running from 24th to 27th July 2026. St Mary's College, Oscott is deeply intertwined with the revival of Catholicism in England. In July 1852 the first synod of Catholic Bishops in England in over two hundred years gathered at Oscott. It was at this synod that Fr John Henry Newman preached... Read More

This is not a tautology or a platitude. Elderly people were key to ensuring that human communities thrived in prehistoric times. And there would have been a good number of them. Life was harsh, but if you survived childhood and childbirth, you had a good chance of living for decades after your own fertility declined. In evolutionary terms, the menopause is a bit of a mystery. Why would genes that ... Read More

Gospel of 29 July 2026 John 11:19-27 At that time: Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother, Lazarus. So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. Martha said to Jesus, 'Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give... Read More

Bishop Philip Egan, Bishop of Portsmouth has issued the following statement about 'The Society of St. Pius X' (SSPX). Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It is with sorrow and a heavy heart that I write to you today. On 1st July, against the express directive of the Holy Father, and so without a papal mandate, four priests of the Society of St Pius X, the SSPX, were ordained bishops at Écône in... Read More