Posts by Andrew Leach

Bishop David’s Pastoral Letter: December 2025

Friday 12 December 2025

The World needs to hear this truth. God has acted, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us; in the womb of the Virgin Mary he took our humanity and he has raised it now to the glory of Heaven.

Christmas at Christ the King

Friday 5 December 2025

Details of Christmas 2024 in the parish. Midnight Mass will be celebrated by candlelight according to Divine Worship.

Christmas at Christ the King

Friday 5 December 2025

Details of Christmas 2025 in the parish. Midnight Mass will be celebrated by candlelight according to Divine Worship.

Cardinal Newman by Walter William Ouless (1848–1933); Oriel College, Oxford

S John Henry Newman, Doctor, co-Patron of Education

Saturday 1 November 2025

His Holiness Pope Leo XIV formally declared the Ordinariate’s patron, S John Henry Newman, a Doctor of the Church on All Saints’ Day, 1 November 2025.

Bishop David at St Mary's College Oscott

Bishop David’s Pastoral Letter: October 2025

Monday 13 October 2025

October sees the pilgrimage of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham to Rome during the Jubilee Year. Bishop David writes about giving thanks.

A new Doctor of the Church

Tuesday 30 September 2025

On Saturday 1 November, All Saints’ Day, Pope Leo XIV will officially declare St John Henry Newman, the most recently canonised saint from England and Wales, the 38th Doctor of the Church.