Fr Roger Dawson, the former soldier who is known to his friends as “the Pedalling Padre”, is back in Oxford at his post as assistant Catholic chaplain to the university, writes Amanda C Dickie
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General tells pupils about history and leadership
Friday, 18 June 2010
John Messent, head boy, Andrew Johnson, Caroline Shorthouse, head girl, and Lord Guthrie
Children bridge sectarian divide through singing
Friday, 18 June 2010
Children of St Francis’s and Blackfriars primary schools in the Gorbals sing together at St Mungo’s Cathedral
Pupils celebrate end of school days at lively ball
Friday, 18 June 2010
From left: Ellen Mchale, Joe Mannion and Anna Littler, sixth formers at St Bede’s, the Manchester Catholic school
Donkey born at Wintershall
Friday, 18 June 2010
Talitha, pictured right, is the filly who was recently born on the Wintershall estate
Pilgrims transport holy image
Friday, 18 June 2010
The theme of the first national Pilgrimage of Divine Mercy to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham on Saturday, June 5, was ‘Tell the Whole World about My Mercy’, writes Antonia Moffat
Charity sets off on pilgrimage
Friday, 18 June 2010
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has held another successful pilgrimage to the ancient shrine of Walsingham to raise awareness of the suffering Church around the world, writes John Newton
Cymer hosts open-air Mass for St John Roberts
Friday, 11 June 2010
Bishop Edwin Regan of Wrexham at the Mass in honour of St John Roberts at Cymer Abbey, Gwynned, Wales
Coloma Old Girls enjoy hearty reunion luncheon
Friday, 11 June 2010
Sheila Glasswell, left, is pictured with Maureen Martin, head mistress of Coloma Convent school, at the reunion
The Year for Priests was a time of hidden renewal
The Year for Priests seems at first glance to have been a tremendous failure – but for many of the world’s priests, says Pope Benedict XVI, it has been a time of quiet renewal