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The Diocese of Peoria announced Monday that Venerable Fulton Sheen will be beatified Dec. 21 at the city’s Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception. Sheen had been ordained a priest of the diocese in that cathedral Sept. 20, 1919.

Migrant Help for Local Victims of Modern Day Slavery.  Can you help?: ​​​​​​​Paisley Diocese has teamed up with our local Migrant Help UK to help find basic provisions for local victims of modern day slavery - men, women and children - being kept safe around our diocese. 

Adoption Society  Working to ensure that every child has the right to grow up in a safe, loving and secure family environment.

The 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time for Year C - In Luke 21 Jesus makes an oracle about the destruction of the temple and how the siege of Jerusalem is going to happen (as had happened before in the history of Jerusalem). Jesus gives his disciples a warning that they will be persecuted during this siege of Jerusalem and to expect that to happen.

The Click To Pray Rosary is a digital rosary that helps you and teaches you to pray the rosary for peace in the world. You can access it with or without the eRosary bracelet or just using your good old fashioned beads...just download the App and off you go!

Not sure if anyone has seen this but it is a rather remarkable piece of engineering and planing! Forester Liam Emmery (51), planted this amazing Celtic cross design nearly 11 years ago in the woods near Killea, in Donegal.

Would you like to be a part of our volunteer team, helping to spread the Gospel of Life? Would you like to join a national movement while being a local ambassador for the most voiceless member of the human family - the unborn?     If so, email info@spucscotland.org TODAY!

You are cordially invited to the SCOTTISH PREMIERE of UNPLANNED THE MOVIE at Cineworld, Renfrew Street, Glasgow at 7.00pm on 27th November 2019. Tickets are FREE and can be obtained at :https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unplanned-the-movie-tickets-81531836919

Saints are not freaks or exceptions, they are the standard operating model for human beings.

If you have excellent communication and facilitation skills and experience of working and communicating with young people between the ages of 7 and 25 we would love to hear from you.

With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased, but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.

A Northern Ireland doctor opposed to abortion said he collected the signatures of 911 health care professionals in the region who will refuse to perform abortions under a new measure that legalized the procedure.

The Pope’s stargazer is to visit Scotland for a week to attend events aimed at exploring the evidence for God’s existence. Brother Guy Consolmagno, an American research astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory, has accepted an invitation from interdenominational Grasping the Nettle (GTN).

The clocks go back at 2.00am on 27 October 2019 – for future reference, it always takes place on the last Sunday in October.

Commendations to our eight diocesan high schools in their SQA Awards for 2019. 

Society of St. Vincent de Paul September News Letter

Abortion provider Marie Stopes International ended the lives of almost 5 million babies in the womb last year in developing countries. Guess who their biggest single donor was? You. Yes, the UK taxpayer gave over £48,000,000 to the organisation in 2018, an increase of 5,000% in the last 12 years, making the UK taxpayer the largest donor to the organisation.

New Addition to the original programme, Lourdes Discipleship Pilgrimage for Youth (18-21yrs) see details... Paisley Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2020 Led by the Bishop John Keenan, Bishop of Paisley. Pilgrimage Director: Fr Gerard McNellis

There is a woman who is clothed with the sun with the moon under feet, adorned with a crown of 12 stars. In this video by Dr. Brant Pitre, he discusses the meaning of Revelation 12 and the famous woman in Revelation 12, clothed with the sun and crowned with twelve stars. For many centuries Catholics have recognized this woman to not only be an image of the Church but also an individual: Mary, the Queen of the Universe, the mother of Jesus

Saint Therese Relics Thanks ​​​​​​​ The Pilgrimage of Saint Therese around our country and diocese was a resounding success and a source of many blessings and consolations for all those who came to venerate her relics or prayed in spirit with them.