A few months ago, the Birmingham Catholic Youth Services (BCYS) was asked to contact each parish in the archdiocese, and ask that they nominate one young person to travel to London, to be a part of a large gathering from all over England, Wales & Scotland during the visit of Pope Benedict to the UK.

A reflection on the Papal Visit by Fr Jan Nowotnik.

Over 3,000 children from England, Scotland and Wales attended this event and were representatives of their particular Dioceses. St John Vianney Catholic Primary School were the only school from Coventry to attend as part of the Birmingham Archdiocese contingent.

by Mark Carroll, House Manager at St Mary's, Birmingham.

Archbishop Bernard, celebrated Mass with the priests and people of the parishes of Coventry on Sunday 26 September at the Holy Family Church at 4pm.

Father Richard Duffield is the Actor, the Postulator if you like, for the Cause for the Canonization of Cardinal Newman. Catholic Today met up with him recently and invited him to help us prepare for the Mass in which Pope Benedict will bestow on Cardinal John Henry Newman the title ‘Blessed’.

Pope Benedict XVI will beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, 1801-1890, the best known English churchman of the 19th Century, during an open air public Mass at Coventry Airport, in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, on Sunday 19 September 2010.

In general, our social teaching applies some well-established principles to key social, political and economic issues of the time. It therefore evolves in response to the different historical contexts in which it is written. We would not expect it to provide explicit endorsement for the labelling of certain goods by the Fairtrade Foundation.

Archbishop Bernard Longley was Installed as the Ninth Archbishop of Birmingham, in the Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica of St Chad, Birmingham, during a special Mass on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tuesday, 8 December, one of the two Patronal Feasts of the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

Jeanne Jugan is the foundress and first Little Sister of the Poor. On October 11, 2009 she was canonized a Saint at St Peter’s in Rome by Pope Benedict XVI.