Martyrs 20th September You may be amazed to discover that by 2015 the Catholic Church in South Korea had 5,560,971 members (10.6% of the population) with 4,901 priests and 1,668 parishes. A Portuguese Jesuit was possibly the first Catholic missionary in Korea, arriving in 1593. However, Catholicism in Korea really began in 1784 when a…

Download our 3 churches newsletter for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time below. 3 churches newsletter – 10 September 2017 (33/17)

St Deiniol (feast day Monday) seems to have been the first Bishop of Bangor in Gwynedd, North Wales. The present Bangor Cathedral (now Anglican) is dedicated to him, and is said to be on the site where his monastery stood, possibly the oldest cathedral site in Britain. Deiniol was from an old family who lost…

Download our double newsletter covering two weeks for the 21st and 22nd Sundays in Ordinary Time (issue 32/17). 3 churches newsletter – 27 August and 3 September 2017 (32/17) Note also that there are a few adjustments to times and locations of weekday Masses. Please remember that there are several other churches within easy reach.…

These are the opening words of a letter to my great-great-grandmother sent 31 August 1917. Her first husband, and father of her three children, George Goodwin, had drowned in Cardiff’s East Dock back in 1881 when baby George was 2 and my grandmother not yet 1 year old, and she had remarried a Thomas Fitzpatrick.…