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We've got three new galleries on the gallery section of the site now. If you haven't seen it before, take a look. The new photos are of the parish pilgrimage to Lourdes in 2008, the Bernadette Club trip to Wicksteed Park and, finally, lots of pictures of the lunch in the parish hall a few Sundays ago.
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Following the furore over the lifting of excommunications on the bishops of the Society of St Pius X, the Pope has written a letter explaining why he made that decision. It's humble and honest and will, of course, be completely distorted by the press. So read for yourself what the Pope has to say.
Dear Brothers in the Episcopal Ministry!
The remission of the excommunication of the four Bishops consecrated in 1988 by Archbishop Lefebvre without a mandate of the Holy See has for many reasons caused, both within and beyond the Catholic Church, a discussion more heated than any we have seen for a long time. Many Bishops felt perplexed by an event which came about unexpectedly and was difficult to view positively in the light of the issues and tasks facing the Church today. Even though many Bishops and members of the faithful were disposed in principle to take a positive view of the Pope’s concern for reconciliation, the question remained whether such a gesture was fitting in view of the genuinely urgent demands of the life of faith in our time. Some groups, on the other hand, openly accused the Pope of wanting to turn back the clock to before the Council: as a result, an avalanche of protests was unleashed, whose bitterness laid bare wounds deeper than those of the present moment. I therefore feel obliged to offer you, dear Brothers, a word of clarification, which ought to help you understand the concerns which led me and the competent offices of the Holy See to take this step. In this way I hope to contribute to peace in the Church.
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The Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, will be named today as the next head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.
Archbishop Nichols, 63, an orthodox bishop who has become more conservative over the past few years, will succeed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor as Archbishop of Westminster soon after Easter.
He was chosen personally by Pope Benedict XVI after he returned from his recent trip to Africa when the Congregation for Bishops failed to agree on a successor to the Cardinal, who will be the first Archbishop of Westminster not to die in office.
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During the past couple of months, people stepping into the parish hall during the week might well have found themselves in the middle of a theatre rehearsal. Ten Ten Theatre Company, who produced 'Kolbe's Gift' here in 2007, have been rehearsing their new plays for schools, 'Babies' and 'The Girl Next Door' in the hall. Both are intensely moving pieces which we hope they will be able to put on for the parish, as well as for schools around the country, sometime in the future.