Events archive
Archbishop Peter Smith installed as Archbishop of Southwark
The Most Reverend Peter Smith, formerly Archbishop of Cardiff, has been installed as the Archbishop of Southwark. The Mass and Installation took place at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark on Thursday 10 June 2010.
He succeeds the Archbishop Emeritus of Southwark, the Most Reverend Kevin McDonald.
In his homily, Archbishop Smith said: "I suggest to you that our prayer each day should be, 'Open my ears that I may hear. Open my eyes that I may see. Open my heart to receive your transforming and purifying Spirit.'"
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24-26 June 2010
Following the success of the Faith in Health conference in 2008, a second conference has been organised for 2010 in Liverpool. The conference is open to all health and social care professionals, of all faiths or none. This Conference will bring together health and social care professionals to explore issues of transition and change for the care giver and the care receiver, with particular reference to the quality of care and meeting spiritual needs.
Delegates will have the opportunity to explore the basis of their vocation to work in health or social care, and to be renewed and affirmed in it.
19 June 2009 - 19 June 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has called the whole Church to celebrate a Year for Priests beginning on 19th June 2009, the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
His purpose for this year is to encourage priests in their “striving for spiritual perfection on which, above all, the effectiveness of their ministry depends” and to highlight “the importance of the priest’s role and mission in the Church and in contemporary society”.
To do this the Holy Father calls us to a renewed focus on the centrality of Christ in our lives and in the Church and that “brings with it the correct appreciation of the ministerial priesthood, without which there would be neither the Eucharist, nor even the mission nor the Church herself”.
6 May 2010
Voting commenced at 7am on Thursday, 6 May 2010. A total of 650 seats were contested.
What did the Bishops of England and Wales say and what were we advised to consider before voting? In this section you will find a statement from the bishops, suggested questions to ask candidates or those canvassing on their behalf and further links, prayers and information.