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The Bishop, with deacons and concelebrating clergy, at Mass at the Festival

Pastoral Letter: Strong and beautiful

Monday 26 October 2026

At the festival, we saw the full strength and beauty of the Ordinariate. We are part of an exciting project as Catholics called to live and serve Our Lord in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. We have been given a role and opportunity for which so many gone before us prayed. The Festival reminds us of the amazing grace of God, of the beauty of His church and of our calling to celebrate and proclaim the Good News in the context of the Anglican Patrimony.

Revd Neil Taylor (c) with Bishop David (l) and Fr Neil (r)

A new deacon

Monday 15 June 2026

Photos of Revd Neil Taylor’s ordination as a deacon of the Church by Bishop David at Warwick Street on Saturday 13 June.

Taking the oath of fidelity

The Oath of Fidelity: a milestone on the journey

Monday 8 June 2026

Our seminarian Neil Taylor made his formal Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity at Mass on Sunday, as Bishop David had given permission for this to happen at Christ the King Church. This is a necessary step prescribed by the Church for all who are called to any office in the Church. Neil is […]

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.

Pope Francis at the Vatican in April 2025

Pope Francis dies on Easter Monday

Monday 21 April 2025

The Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber announced the death of His Holiness Pope Francis on Easter Monday.

Image of Our Lady of Walsingham in the Basilica of the National Shrine

Our Lady of Walsingham now a Feast in England

Friday 12 July 2024

Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the DDW, wrote to Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Bishops’ Conference, granting permission for Our Lady of Walsingham to be celebrated as a new Feast in the dioceses of England, starting this year on 24 September.