Author: RCDA

• 05/03/2020

  Fr James & Fr Max in BBC film “Our Fathers”

  The story of two Nigerian priests who due to a shortage of priests were sent to the Scottish Highlands is the topic of a new BBC documentary.

• 02/03/2020

  Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent

  How good to begin this Sunday with the Litany of the Saints! Immediately we feel helped. Whenever the Litany of the Saints is sung, it’s because something big is going […]

• 27/02/2020

  Homily for Ash Wednesday

  Those of us familiar with the Lord of the Rings will remember a scene near the beginning. Frodo is in his hobbit hole in the Shire, that good, green, wholesome, […]

• 14/02/2020

  Scottish Government Consultation on Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

  The Scottish Government is holding a public consultation regarding a proposed Bill on Gender Recognition Reform. The consultation is open until 17 March.

• 25/01/2020

  75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

  STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES (CCEE) AND FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION OF THE BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (COMECE) ON THE 75th ANNIVERSARY […]

• 25/01/2020

  Homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

  Brothers and Sisters, as your bishop, my great longing is that Christ be real to us. Ever more real. Real, though physically unseen. Real to the eyes of faith. Real […]

• 12/01/2020

  Homily for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

  Today, as it were, we fast forward. The child in the manger is suddenly an adult by the river. Instead of the arms of his mother, there’s the voice of […]

• 04/01/2020

  Pastoral Letter for Day of Prayer for Peace

  My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The coming of Christ brings us hope, and the Church exists to proclaim that hope to the world. There is hope because God does not […]