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Father Alex’s Corner, September 2025: click here “Wonder-worker of England”: St. Cuthbert, September 2025: click here Deacon Alex’s Corner, August 2025: click here The Pearl of York: St. Margaret Clitherow, August 2025: click here July 2025: Deacon Alex’s Corner: click here July 2025: Priestly witness: St. John Jones, martyr: click here June 2025: Deacon Alex’s Corner: click here June 2025: A…

By Kimberly Bruce Sunday, 22 June is a significant day in the Church calendar: the feast of two great and inspiring English Catholic martyrs: St. John Fisher, bishop, and St. Thomas More. Saint John Fisher (1469-1535) was a renowned scholar, priest, and cardinal in the Catholic Church. Saint Thomas More (1478-1535) was a popular statesman, humanist, and author, as well…

New Beginnings, New Opportunities June 2025 Deacon Alexander Pumphrey, MIC, joined the Divine Mercy Apostolate UK this month, working with Fr. Lukasz Mazurek, MIC. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and a Catholic convert, he was ordained to the transitional diaconate in February, and will be ordained to the priesthood on 16 August. Here is his first monthly “corner” blog. On my…

By the Most Rev. Joseph Roesch, MIC Superior General of the worldwide Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, based in Rome. May 8, 2025 will long be remembered as the day when Pope Leo XIV, the first Holy Father born in the United States of America, had been chosen. I was working in…

Deacon Alexander Pumphrey, MIC, 32, has been assigned to the Divine Mercy Apostolate UK, joining Fr. Lukasz Mazurek, MIC. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and a Catholic convert, he joined the Marian Fathers in 2018. Last February he was ordained to the transitional diaconate, and is expected to be ordained to the priesthood this year. Deacon Alex takes up his new…