• The Catholic Church across Cheshire and Shropshire and parts of Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Derbyshire.
  • The Catholic Church across Cheshire and Shropshire and parts of Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Derbyshire.
  • The Catholic Church across Cheshire and Shropshire and parts of Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Derbyshire.

Welcome to the Diocese of Shrewsbury which continues the mission of the Catholic Church across Cheshire and Shropshire and parts of Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Derbyshire.


More than a hundred parishes and schools together with more than thirty Religious communities and ecclesial movements continue this mission today.
I hope this developing website will reflect something of the life of the Diocese with its great diversity of towns, cities and rural communities sharing together the Catholic faith. We welcome you to join us here on the internet.

Monday May 20, 2013

Sunday Mass readings of the week

Pentecost Sunday

Meditation of the week

The new era of the Spirit

Saint of the week

St Bede the Venerable, 25th May

Year of Faith 2012-13

The Sixth Sunday of Easter

5th May 2013 The Sixth Sunday of Easter FUNERALS AND OTHER LITURGIES (CCC 1667-1690) Readings Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Ps 66; Apoc 21:10-14. 22-23; John 14:23-29 Sacramentals (CCC 1667-1673) Unlike sacraments, sacramentals do not confer grace by the power of the [...]

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Bishops: amend Bill to protect our schools from promotion of same-sex marriage

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  Senior Catholic leaders have called for last-minute amendments to the same-sex marriage Bill in the fear that it will force teachers to actively promote gay marriage in Catholic schools. They warned MPs that the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill posed [...]

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Be wary of media attempts to turn the Pope into a public personality, says Bishop

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Catholics should be wary of the interpretation of the personal style of Pope Francis that is being presented by some commentators in the media, the Bishop of Shrewsbury has said. In a homily at a Mass for the Union of [...]

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Cheshire mother seeks to help parents to teach their children the truth about sex

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It is often difficult to grasp just how depraved, damaging and madly misguided are some of the ideas that adults think up for children in the sphere of sex education. The latest offering from the Sex Education Forum, for instance, [...]

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