Sweet-toothed Fr Hawkins enjoys birthday chocolate treat

For his fortieth birthday, the Bishop of East Anglia, Alan Hopes, presented Fr Padraig Hawkins, his private secretary, with a token of appreciation. Fr Hawkins is understood to appreciate chocolate, and the bar of Toblerone he received weighed 4.5kg. Picture: The Bishop of East Anglia, Alan Hopes, presents Fr Padraig Hawkins with his birthday gift – a giant Toblerone. (Mgr Tony Rogers).

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August 28, 2020

Mother Teresa’s nuns cancel birth celebrations because of Covid-19

Missionaries of Charity nuns cancelled the usual birth anniversary celebrations of their founder, St Teresa, this year after some nuns tested positive for Covid-19. Ucanews.com reported the saintly nun’s 110th birth anniversary passed off without the customary celebrations on 26thAugust at the congregation’s headquarters. After nine nuns tested positive for Covid-19 at Missionaries of Charity... Read More

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August 2, 2020

Food & Drink: Classic chocolate birthday cake recipe

A classic chocolate birthday cake recipe you won’t be able to do without, writes Ella Walker. “It’s the law, birthday cake needs to include both chocolate and sprinkles, lots of sprinkles. When I was little, the birthday cake of choice was a simple cocoa affair topped with melted milk chocolate and decorations made from Smarties,... Read More

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April 22, 2020

Cardinal Nichols offers prayers for Queen as she spends 94th birthday under Covid-19 lockdown

It was an altogether different birthday for the Queen yesterday, as Her Majesty spent her 94th birthday under the UK’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Bishops’ Conference, sent a letter to the Queen assuring her of the ‘prayers and affection’ of the Catholics of England and Wales. Praising the Queen’s hope-filled... Read More

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April 16, 2020

Retired pope, celebrating 93rd birthday, is well, secretary says

Retired Pope Benedict XVI “is well,” although the coronavirus pandemic restrictions mean he will receive no visitors today, 16th April, his 93rd birthday. “Thank God, all of us in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery are well,” Archbishop Georg Ganswein, the retired pope’s personal secretary, told Avvenire, the Italian Catholic newspaper. The retired pope, the archbishop and... Read More

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August 27, 2019

St Teresa of Kolkata’s birthday not forgotten by Missionaries of Charity

Missionaries of Charity nuns in India celebrated the birthday of their order’s founder, St Teresa of Kolkata, three years after her canonisation, breaking a Catholic convention. Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Kolkata led a Mass on Monday 26th August marking the 109th anniversary of the saint’s birth in the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in... Read More

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June 6, 2019

Former president of papal academy dies day before his 91st birthday

The former head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, died on 5th June, just one day shy of his 91st birthday. A bioethics expert, the president emeritus helped articulate the Vatican’s position on many important issues such as embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, the definition of brain death, abortion and in vitro fertilisation.... Read More

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December 17, 2018

Pope celebrates his birthday with clients of Vatican paediatric clinic

If the Holy Family lived in Rome and the baby Jesus had a cold or flu, Mary and Joseph certainly would bring him to the Vatican paediatric clinic for help, Pope Francis said. The Vatican’s St Martha Dispensary was founded in 1922 and, staffed by volunteers, it provides medical care and basic necessities to any... Read More

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January 17, 2018

Community parties to honour murdered MP Jo Cox on her 44th birthday

Parties in honour of murdered MP Jo Cox will be held across the country on what would have been her 44th birthday, it has been announced. Plans to repeat the Great Get Together, which was held last year on the anniversary of Ms Cox’s death, on a more “positive” date were revealed at a Downing... Read More

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