Catholic Church

Global gathering at Buckfast Abbey celebrates rare ordination of new priests

Monks and priests from around the world gathered at Devon’s Buckfast Abbey earlier this month to celebrate the rare ordination of two monks, Dom Andrew Prickett and Dom John George, to the priesthood.

Typically taking five years to complete, the formation for the Roman Catholic priesthood is a unique and increasingly uncommon event in the UK. It not only requires many years of study in...

History made as Catholic Bishop establishes new home for Traditional Latin Mass

Latin might be a dead language to most but this Sunday in Plymouth, it was alive and well.

The Catholic Traditional Latin Mass has a new home in Devon thanks to the intervention of the Bishop of Plymouth.

For the first time in 46 years, a ‘Missa Cantata’ or sung Mass was celebrated at St Edward the Confessor in Plymouth on Sunday.

This historic occasion was due to the...