News from around the Archdiocese of Liverpool
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL CELEBRATING 50 YEARS
- A LOOK BACK AT OUR COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE
A day of grace and
celebration
The Metropolitan Cathedral welcomed over 1,000 people on 3 September for the Episcopal Ordination of Bishop Tom Neylon.
Welcome Father Joseph
On Thursday 27 May, Fr Joseph Kiganda CSSp was formally inducted as the Parish Priest of St Mary and St Columba, Castletown and Port Erin, Isle of Man
Local Catholic schoolboy exhibits at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show
Talented young artist Nathan Holmes, a parishioner of St Leo's in Whiston, Merseyside, has had a wonderful colour pencil drawing selected
Sr Mary is remembered on anniversary
Maricourt High School fondly remembered the first anniversary of founding headteacher of Maricourt, Sr Mary Magdalen who died peacefully in her residence
Ordination of Deacons
On Sunday 18 July Archbishop Malcolm ordained four men to the Permanent Diaconate in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, to serve in the Isle of Man, Penwortham, St Helens and West Derby
Bags of hope from Huyton to Mary’s Meals
Parishioners from churches in Huyton have donated backpacks, filled with school items, for children receiving Mary’s Meals more than 7,000 miles away
Obituary of Father Joseph (Joe) Duggan SJ
Father Joe, as he was usually known, was a Joseph both by name and by nature. A quiet man, who preferred to be in the background
Lifelong human rights campaigner Lord Alton receives Westminster Award
Human rights campaigner and Member of the House of Lords, David Alton, has received the 2021 Westminster Award
Annual Civic Mass
Archbishop Malcolm McMahon celebrated the Annual Civic Mass at 11.00 am on Sunday 23 February in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
Papal Mandate for the appointment of Bishop Thomas Neylon
FRANCIS, BISHOP, SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD, to our beloved son Thomas Joseph Neylon
Protest Fast at SFX church, Liverpool
‘I am so angry at the Government’ said Jesuit Parish Priest, Denis Blackledge, of Saint Francis Xavier in Everton, near Liverpool City Centre
Clergy Appointments
The Clergy appointments for 2021
Canon Aidan Prescott – Vicar General
Rev Philip Inch – Episcopal Vicar for Pastoral Development
Rev Matthew Nunes – Moderator of the Curia
Obituary of Deacon John Keeley
John Keeley was born on 6 November 1939 and followed in his father’s footsteps as a craftsman, mastering a whole range of skills
Father Lennon and the Heather Priests
Rumours of Father Lennon’s wealth circulated around the parish of Weld Bank, Chorley, following his death in 1897.
