Episodes

  • Interfaith panel discussion on end-of-life care

    Interfaith panel discussion on end-of-life care
    Oct 29 2025
    ‘Dying to Live’ was a panel discussion that took place in the Grimshaw Room of St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, on Sunday 26 October. It examined how faith traditions approach dying, death, and bereavement and the religious and cultural practices observed in end-of-life settings. Moderated by Associate Professor Maggie Doherty, Lead at the Centre for the Art of Living and Dying Well, the session presented findings from the Centre’s new community-based participatory research. The panel members, who shared deeply personal insights, represented six religions: Ruth Jacobs, Judaism; Shamim Merali, Islam; Harr-Joht Kaur, Sikhism; Shobha Sharma, Hinduism; Christina Ronayne, Christianity; Simon Romer, […]
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    50 mins
  • Love in action in the Holy Land

    Love in action in the Holy Land
    Oct 16 2025
    Catholic News – October 2025 In this Catholic News podcast we are joined by Anton Asfar, Secretary General of Caritas Jerusalem and Fr Elias Tabban, Parish Priest of Zababdeh Parish, near Jenin. We learn about the happy, hopeful but also cautious mood on the ground among the people following the Gaza ceasefire agreement which marks the end of the war and the beginning of the first phase of the peace process in the Holy Land. There are many challenges which are arising, including the lack of fresh water, sanitation and food supplies, which means that families are struggling. There are […]
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    26 mins
  • Bishop of Nottingham on the 'Pilgrimage of Hope' blessed by Pope Leo

    Bishop of Nottingham on the 'Pilgrimage of Hope' blessed by Pope Leo
    Sep 25 2025
    The Right Reverend Patrick McKinney, Bishop of Nottingham, joined the National Jubilee Pilgrimage of Hope on its last day as pilgrims descended on his diocesan Cathedral Church of St Barnabas. Geographically, Nottingham worked well as the intersection point where the four pilgrimage ‘Ways’ – north, south, east and west – came together to complete a huge Cross that was traced by the footsteps of the pilgrims across England and Wales. Bishop Patrick linked up with the pilgrims walking the final miles of St John’s Way on Saturday, 13 September, braving torrential rain on the way to Nottingham Cathedral. Speaking to […]
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    8 mins
  • Healing, recovery and faith in Tigray

    Healing, recovery and faith in Tigray
    Sep 12 2025
    On today’s Catholic News podcast we’re speaking to our Lead Bishop for Africa, Bishop Paul Swarbrick. Our focus is Ethiopia – and in particular Tigray. Six months ago, from 17-28 March, Bishop Paul travelled to the country at the invitation of CAFOD, the Church’s Aid and Development agency here in England and Wales, and the charities SCIAF, the equivalent in Scotland, and Trócaire, the Irish Bishops’ agency. Bishop Paul has a love for Africa and her people having served as a missionary priest in Zambia for almost 15 years, but how did he feel travelling to Tigray – a region […]
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    27 mins
  • National Walking Pilgrimage for the Jubilee Year

    National Walking Pilgrimage for the Jubilee Year
    Aug 15 2025
    As the UK endures its fourth heatwave of the year, more people than ever are using their spare time to get out and about to enjoy the sunshine and the many walking routes our country has to offer. Yes, you have to be sensible – you have to be prepared – but why not use this seasonal time of rest and relaxation to combine faith, prayer, and pilgrimage to walk a path of witness that medieval English and Welsh people followed religiously pre-Reformation. One man who wants to see that ancient tradition of walking pilgrimage resurrected and embedded into the […]
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    14 mins
  • Communicating using language that encourages hope and peace

    Communicating using language that encourages hope and peace
    May 23 2025
    World Communications Day falls this year on Sunday, 1 June. The theme centres around the need to communicate responsibly to foster a culture of hope and peace. For this Catholic News podcast, we speak to our Media Bishop, the Rt Revd John Arnold, to discuss the final Communications Day message of Pope Francis’s pontificate and how Pope Leo XIV has picked up where his predecessor left off to speak positively about the need to build bridges with our words: “Pope Leo was very measured with the media professionals [in a meeting four days after his election]. He presented language as […]
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    11 mins
  • Cardinal Nichols' homily after Pope Leo XIV's election

    Cardinal Nichols' homily after Pope Leo XIV's election
    May 11 2025
    Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Bishops’ Conference, gave a Sunday morning homily in the chapel of the Venerable English College in Rome, in which he spoke at length about the intense focus on prayer in the Sistine chapel that prevailed in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV as Bishop of Rome. The homily was given on Sunday, 11 May 2025. Subscribe You can subscribe to our Catholic News podcasts via Apple Podcasts or Amazon/Audible.
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    9 mins
  • Cardinal prepares for the funeral of Pope Francis

    Cardinal prepares for the funeral of Pope Francis
    Apr 24 2025
    Three days after the death of Pope Francis, Cardinal Vincent Nichols speaks to us from Rome about his personal feelings and experiences ahead of the papal funeral. Subscribe You can subscribe to our Catholic News podcasts via Apple Podcasts or Amazon/Audible.
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    10 mins