Dear Colleague I am sure that, like me, you will have been shocked by recent revelations which have given rise to stern criticism of the Church in Scotland. The authenticity of our Church leadership has been questioned and we are having to face up toread more
Deus caritas est – God is love. Building on the success of the Caritas Award scheme for final year students in secondary schools, the Junior Caritas Award will open the door of faith for pupils in Primary 6 & 7. The award is being designed toread more
Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,visited Scotland 14-16th June 2013 to deliver the prestigious Cardinal Winning Lecture at the University of Glasgow. The Archbishop who heads the Vatican department read more
Archbishop Gerhard Müller, in the homily which he delivered during a Mass to celebrate Catholic Education in Scotland, praised and encouraged teachers with these words: “The Church needs you. Our children need you. Our society needs you.” He read more
Archbishop Gerhard Müller, giving the Cardinal Winning lecture at the University of Glasgow on Saturday 15th June 2013, stressed the importance of the Catholic vision of education in today’s world: “In the midst of so many diverse and at timeread more
What is Scotland’s Rio? Scotland’s Rio is an event being run by the Catholic Youth Service of Scotalnd for the young people of Scotland in parallel with the World Youth Day (WYD) being celebrated with Pope Francis in Rio de Janeiro from Tuesday 23 Juread more
Lumen Fidei (The Light of Christ) – the first encyclical of Pope Francis – was published on Friday 5th July. It restates in a new way the truth that faith in Jesus Christ is a good for humanity “truly a good for everyone; a common good”.read more
At the CHAPS Conference on 5/6 September 2013, Michael McGrath spoke to the conference theme: ‘Forward in Faith’, using a PowerPoint presentation which stresses the importance of Catholic teachers working in the classroom “on behalf of Cread more
In his homily during Mass in St. Peter’s Square, on Sunday 29th September, at the end of an international Congress on Catechesis organised for the Year of Faith, Pope Francis described Catechists – teachers, parents, priests, religious and othread more
During the Year of Faith in the Catholic Church many opportunities were created to celebrate our faith worldwide. The four CAtholic schools in Argyll and Bute – St. Andrew’s Rothesay, St Columba’s, Oban, St. Mun’s Dunoon and St. Joread more
