TEA AND COFFEE AFTER MASS

The young people from LOFT (Living our Faith Together) are giving parishioners an opportunity to ‘catch up’ with a cuppa after Mass in St Comgalls the first Sunday of each month. They will be serving up refreshments as well as selling you a bun – or two with proceeds in aid of LOFT

News

Atheist hypocrisy: How mysteries demonstrate the existence of God 06/08/2020

Mysteries abound in the universe. What are dark matter and dark energy? How does quantum entanglement work? What existed before the Big Bang? Was there even a "before?" What's the solution to the Fermi Paradox? And this is a short list. There are mysteries in Christianity too. But mysteries in science are tolerated, but mysteries […]

75 years of nuclear weapons madness 05/08/2020

Wars have always caused needless suffering, destruction and death. But 75 years ago, the hell of war reached a new all time immoral low when on August 6, 1945 a United States Boeing B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima instantly killing over 70,000 - mostly civilian - children, women […]

My Priesthood Doesn't Take Away My Human and Patriotic Duties 04/08/2020

Since Cardinal John O'Connor of New York (who ordained me) announced the Sisters of Life in 1991, I started thinking that there needed to be something like that for Priests. With other priests having had the same idea, Priests for Life got off the ground and I became full-time director in 1993.

Saint of the day

St. Cajetan: Saint of the Day for Friday, August 07, 2020 07/08/2020

In 1523, the Church was in sad shape. People could not get the spiritual nourishment they needed from the large numbers of uneducated and even immoral priests who took their money but returned nothing. When good priests and laypeople turned to the hierarchy for help, they found leaders at best apathetic and indifferent to their […]

St. Hormisdas Pope: Saint of the Day for Thursday, August 06, 2020 06/08/2020

Pope from 514-523, successor to St. Symmachus, and father of Pope St. Silverius Born in Frosinone, Campagna di Roma, Italy, he was an Italian, although he had a Persian name. Married and widowed prior to ordination, he succeeded St. Symmachus on July 21, 514. One of his great achievements was the ending of the Acacian […]

St. Addal: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, August 05, 2020 05/08/2020

A disciple of Christ sent by St. Thomas to the court of King Abgar the Black, the second century Osroene ruler. Legendary accounts claim Abgar wrote to Christ asking Jesus to cure him of an intolerable and incurable illness. Abgar's court was in Edessa in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Addal cured Abgar and converted the […]