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When does Lent end this year?

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When is St Patrick’s Day 2023 and why do we celebrate it?

Pope Francis attends the funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as pallbearers carry the coffin at the end of the funeral mass at St. Peter's square

Mourners gather to pay respects at Pope Benedict  XVI funeral

Thorpe Arch-based Elite Scaffolding is playing a leading role in the restoration of a 155- year-old Grade II listed church tower.

Historic Grade II listed church in West Yorkshire is restored to former glory

Pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95, press officials confirm

The entrance to Ingleby Manor in the North York Moors

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An Easter Sunday Mass being live-streamed. Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire.

Congregations may not return fully after live-streamed Masses - Neil McNicholas

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson in the garden of 10 Downing Street after their wedding

Why twice divorced Boris Johnson was allowed to marry in a Catholic church

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Mount St Mary's Church

Abandoned Leeds church set to become apartments

At York Minster, Lisa Power and Danny Knight receive the sign of the cross marked in ashes on their foreheads, from The Revd Maggie McLean, Canon Missioner at York Minster, during the Imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday.

York church abandons Ash Wednesday tradition amid coronavirus scare

Churches are having prayer vigils as a result of the Brexit crisis.

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Blessed rebirth for Yorkshire church the heavens rained on

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Britain is increasingly becoming a godless society, says new study

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Over 50 priests defrocked over sex abuse since 2001

Dean of Ripon Cathedral John Dobson (centre) and the Mayor of Ripon Cllr Mick Stanley outside the Cathedral yesterday for the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake race.

GP Taylor: Church must stop us giving up on Lent

Pope issues blistering critique of 
‘power-mad’ Vatican bureaucracy

Over 50 priests defrocked for clerical sex abuse in 13 years

Neil McNicholas: We must not forget those who face peril on the seas
THIS Sunday is “Sea Sunday”, a day on which the needs of seafarers – and the hardships and dangers of their work at sea – are remembered, with collections being taken in support of the Church’s ministry to them.

Obama meets ‘kindred spirit’ Pope Francis

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Dunstan Adams

Disgraced Cardinal blocked sex abuse inquiry

Neil McNicholas: Yet more prejudice from the critics of religion in schools

Pope makes saints of victims of 15th century massacre

Benedict’s faith enriched Church says new pontiff

Pope Francis speaks to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican

Gordon Urquhart: In a faith torn apart by crisis, this pope must build bridges f...

Neil McNicholas: Church must look to the future and not forget the past
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Cardinal Keith O'Brien

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Cardinal Keith O'Brien

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Catholic Church criticises Scottish government on gay marriage

Brian Green

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Sacrament for boy with Down’s Syndrome

Cardinal apologises to victim of paedophile

Irish archbishop calls for inquiry into paedophile priest

Pressure grows on cardinal to resign

Cardinal backs wearing of cross ‘to show you value role of Jesus’

Cardinal attacks Cameron’s gay marriage plans as ‘madness’

A secret society? No, we’re freemasons because we enjoy friendships and fun

Parents to blame in row over First Communion

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Vatican tried to put abuse priest in monastery

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