All Kinds of Catholic

Jo Siedlecka is the founder of Independent Catholic News. She shares how she finally returned to her faith after observing the quiet witness of others in different parts of the world, caring for street children and refugees. She says, ‘They were people with a faith. They were motivated by something more than just altruism.’ Jo gives us a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes work of curating a free daily Catholic news website - and the prayers and practices that continue to nourish her faith: knowing prayers in Polish and English, Mass that welcomes dogs as well as children, making space for quiet reflection and joining in the morning and night prayer of the church.
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Independent Catholic News
Pray as you go
The Divine Office
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Sophie explains how as a teenager she made a decision to listen carefully to the Mass and decide if it was ‘something I want to be part of my life.’ For her, sharing faith with others is driven by wanting to share the love of God with them. Drawing on St John Paul II, Sophie points out that communicating about faith online is important but in the digital space ‘what we’re missing is that real, embodied encounter with someone.’
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Teams of Our Lady
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Claire grew up in the South Wales valleys in a family with no faith – although later she was able to see how God was already at work in her life. Her journey to the Catholic Church took a long time, beginning in the Anglican church, feeling called to ministry, then thirty years of being away from church altogether. But on becoming a Catholic in her fifties, Claire says, ‘I’ve never looked back.’ She is a trans woman and she shares how her identity and her faith sit comfortably together and the words of Psalm 139 feel affirming to her. We discuss Claire’s research on the experiences of trans young people in schools — published in her book Wrong Bodies, Wrong Schools. She is aware of how toxic this issue has become but ‘These stories’, she says, ‘need to be told.’
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St Beuno’s Retreat centre
Margaret Beaufort Institute
Wrong Bodies, Wrong Schools
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Father Matthew tells us how it began: a closed church, a couple looking for a new spiritual home, a letter to the family at the Manor House, and a year-long experiment that is growing into a thriving Ordinariate congregation. Today St Mary's Catholic church has two Sunday Masses, many parish activities, and a 99-year lease on the church building. Five members of the parish community join the conversation to explain how their faith is nurtured by the way our shared faith is expressed in this particular parish.
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Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
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Graham describes how times of serious mental illness and a loss of his sense of self nevertheless helped him to discover his spiritual part that ‘I had been ignoring.’ After much questioning, he found a home in the Catholic Church. Graham shares what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God when mental health is fragile, the overlap he sees between mystical experience and psychiatric episodes, the writings of St John of the Cross, and the ‘excuses and distractions’ that sometimes keep him from prayer.
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