Please be advised that there will be a temporary road closure outside Our Lady Star of the Sea Church due to scheduled roadworks.

A Gold Background to the Calvary Scence

The back wall has bothered me for some time: it needed something to help the Calvary Scene stand out.

Over the near four years of being parish priest, the car park at Our Lady Star of the Sea has been a cause of headaches for parishioners

Our Cardinal, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, paid a moving visit to the Tomb of the late Holy Father, Pope Francis, in the Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome

Many of us will have grown up with the beautiful Catholic tradition of praying a ‘Novena’. The tradition - and name - of this devotion comes from the Latin for ‘nine’

In the secrecy of the Sistine Chapel, when it was clear that Cardinal Prevost had a 2/3 majority, he will have been asked: Do you accept your canonical election as supreme pontiff?

It was 1492 when the first Conclave was held in the Sistine Chapel. In context, this is the same year that Christopher Columbus set sail and discovered the new continent we now call America! 

One of the most distinguishing features of being a Catholic is that we are in Communion with the Successor of St Peter, the Bishop of Rome, whom we call the Pope.

In the June of 2014, in my first parish Our Lady and St Christopher in Romiley, the parish and our schools had been focused on Bishop Mark’s initiative of a Year of Reconciliation

Over the next number of Saturdays, Saturday morning Confessions will not be possible, due to the celebration of Masses for first Holy Communion