Bishop Declan is to celebrate Liturgies of Reconciliation during the Season of Lent at five venues across the diocese. These venues are: Wednesday 21 February  St Anthony of Padua, Melksham Wednesday 28 February Our Lady Queen of Apostles, Cheddar Wednesday 6 March ...

Marriage Week (7 to 14 February) encourages people across our community of faith to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and family life. Marriage is God’s gift to men and women. It is an expression of the...

Pope Francis has given us The Year of Prayer 2024 in preparation for the Holy Year of 2025. This series at St John the Evangelist, South Parade, Bath, draws us into the school of prayer so that we might draw near to the Lord who calls us to draw near to him. We start...

The 8th January 2024 marked a truly special occasion as we became a part of the Little Way Catholic Educational Trust. To commemorate this momentous day, we started with a special assembly where we watched a getting-to-know-you video from each of the schools, indulged...

Lumen Gentium teaches that all the baptised participate in Christ’s kingly office. We can grow comfortable with calling Christ the King, and we think of it as a cosmic abstraction. But what is Christ’s kingship in a more concrete sense? And how are we called to live...

Clifton Diocese in partnership with ‘Light of Truth’ are offering a Lenten retreat: ‘Transformed by Love’ in six online sessions, contemplating God’s grace at work in the lives of six persons, through scripture and artworks. The six sessions begin at 7.30pm on a...

Swindon school pupils have performed a heart-warming gesture to support an elderly woman currently living away from her home as it is rebuilt due to damage caused by mould and leaks. The discovery of the disabled elderly woman’s cold, flooded, mould-ridden, and...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols has issued a statement on the killings in the Church compound of the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City: “I am heartbroken at the information provided by Cardinal Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, of killings in the...

On Wednesday 8th November pupils from the Clifton Diocese secondary schools and colleges gathered for the chaplaincy commissioning service at Clifton Cathedral. Bishop Declan celebrated the pupil’s commitment to be ambassadors of the Catholic faith in their schools...