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Deacons of the Diocese attend Jubilee talk by future Pope Leo XIV
Photo: L-R Susan Dowds Deacon Tom Gorman, Mary Ross, Deacon Michael Ross, Kieran Burt, Fr Mark Cassidy (Rector of the Scots College),...
May 12, 2025


Ordination of Deacon Kieran Burt
Congratulation to Deacon Kieran Burt who was ordained on Saturday 10th May to the Order of Diaconate by Archbishop Leo Cushley in the...
May 11, 2025


Pope Leo XIV
With our fellow Catholics, and so many others, across the world we in the Diocese of Motherwell thank God for the election of our new...
May 8, 2025


Holy Mass for Pope Francis
Bishop Toal wishes to advise you of the following two Masses he will be celebrating in the next week or so. - Mass for the Eternal Rest...
Apr 27, 2025


Bishop Toal’s message of condolence on the death of Pope Francis
The Community of the Diocese of Motherwell joins the Church and so many others in mourning the death of Our Holy Father, Pope Francis 1....
Apr 21, 2025


Bishop Toal's Easter Message
Dear Brothers and Sisters, As Pilgrims of Hope in this Jubilee Year there can be no day more hope-filled than Easter Sunday as we...
Apr 19, 2025


Invitation to the Mass of Chrism
As in previous years the Mass of Chrism in Motherwelll Diocese will be celebrated on Holy Thursday morning in Our Lady of Good Aid...
Apr 3, 2025


Opening of Holy Year
The Holy Year opens in our diocese with a pilgrimage moving towards the Cathedral behind the cross prepared by Holy Cross High School for...
Dec 27, 2024


Christmas Message 2024
On the First Sunday of Advent, a phrase from the Reading from St Paul’s Letter to The Thessalonians caught my attention – it was “more...
Dec 24, 2024


Letter from Bishop Toal on the New Lectionary
Dear Brothers and Sisters. On the First Sunday of Advent all parishes in Scotland will begin using our new translation of the Lectionary,...
Dec 1, 2024
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