April 2025 Newsletter from your NBCW Diocesan Link
APRIL 2025 News from your Diocesan Link
JUBILEE 2025
Welcome to the April edition of the NBCW Diocesan Link
newsletter! This month, we continue our Lenten Journey with Radio Maria. The
School for Synodality will begin their Book Club looking at the Final Synod
Document and we are still looking at the End of Life Bill.
Do get involved in the
opportunity to extend and learn new skills and do share. Prepared for women in
the church but open to all.
Upcoming Events
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Ashes to Hope: A Lenten Journey. Sign up for Radio
Maria England daily video series, delivered straight to your inbox. Each video
offers wisdom and guidance to help you move beyond the shallows of scrolling
and into the depths of life in the Crucified and Resurrected Christ. You can sign
up here:
https://rmengland.civi-go.net/lentendailyreflections.
21st May - 25th June 7:30
PM - 9:00 PM BST School for Synodality Online Bookclub - Reading the Final Synod Document Together.
Each week Avril Baigent and invited speakers take sections of
the Final Synod Document and unpack it, with time for questions
afterwards.
The last stage of the three year Synod journey was the Final
Synod Document, the recommendations from the Assembly which Pope Francis has
taken into church teaching, and which he has asked us to implement. The
Document is beautiful but rather technical in places, so the School for
Synodality has organised an online bookclub with a global cast of experts to
help us reflect on it together.
- 21st May - Part 1: The Heart of Synodality -
understanding the theological roots of what we are about with Jos
Moons SJ
- 28th May - Part 2: The Conversion of Relationships -
Mission and Ministry in a Changing World with Prof Anna Rowlands
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Hard
Cases Don't Make Good Law
Thursday 3 April 6.30pm
The Catholic Union is holding a webinar on the Terminally
Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Chaired by Baroness Hollins, President of the
Catholic Union, it will give members and supporters the chance to unpick the
Bill guided by three experts: Dr Matthew Doré; Dr Philip Howard and Professor
Julian Hughes.
Dr Matthew Doré, Consultant Palliative Care
Physician, says: “Many concerns about bad deaths raised at the impassioned
Second Reading of the Bill by MPs evoke emotion but are not addressed by the
Bill itself. There is a stark mismatch between the emotional rationale and the
Bill’s content. This false premise written into the Bill will inevitably kill
many erroneously.”
Dr Philip Howard, former Gastroenterologist
& Senior Lecturer in Medicine says: “There would be an enormous change
in the practice of medicine should the Bill become law. It would reverse
the declaration within the Hippocratic Oath that “I will give no deadly drug to
any, nor will I counsel such.” Deadly drugs will be given to many and suicides
will be encouraged. The Leadbeater Bill is at odds with the fundamental Right
to Life enshrined in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human
Rights.”
Professor Julian Hughes, Former Consultant Old Age
Psychiatrist, says: “With the NHS struggling to keep up with demand now is
not the time to introduce assisted suicide. The answer is to invest in
well-coordinated end-of-life care - not to take an attitude of therapeutic
nihilism”.
The Bill will return to the Commons’ Chamber for
Third Reading on 25 April.
To sign up for the webinar at 18.30 on Thursday 3 April,
please register on Eventbrite and a link will be sent to you in due course.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hard-cases-dont-make-good-law-assisted-suicide-webinar-tickets-1233106176769?aff=oddtdtcreator
Articles
Assisted Suicide -Protecting Victims of Domestic Abuse : An Article that Nikki
Dhillon Keane - of Safe in Faith and the convenor of the VAWG Committee - wrote
for the Bishops' Conference on assisted dying and the threat it poses to women
in abusive situations:
https://www.cbcew.org.uk/assisted-suicide-protecting-victims-of-domestic-abuse/
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July 19th
Saturday 11-4pm . Women
of Hope A day of Celebration and Hope organised by Northampton Diocese at
St Mary’s, Woburn Sands, Free event open to all. See Poster below.
The last NBCW event in our diocese was 2019 in when 70 women
attended a day with Bishop Richard. If anyone would like a day for the women of
the diocese in this Jubilee Year of Hope, do let me know. If you want it, we
can do it.
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Get Involved
Have news to share from your parish or organization or web
links you would like to share? Contact Sue Petritz at nbcw@abdiocese.org.uk.
Let’s celebrate our collective journey of faith!
Reflection
"The strength to persevere, the courage to speak
out, the faith to believe."
— Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB
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