Catholic Bishops' Plenary - April 2018

A press conference held to present the Bishops' resolutions and statements formalised at their April 2018 plenary meeting took place at the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales on Friday 20 April 2018. Among other things, the Bishops discussed matters relating to gender, offered thanks for the Pope's Apostolic Exhortation on holiness, Gaudete et Exsultate, proposed a Year of the Word: The God who Speaks for 2020 and offered prayers for peace and an end to violence and terrorism. To cover the issues in more depth, the panel consisted of Bishop John Sherrington, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, Fr Chris Thomas, General Secretary of the Bishops' Conference, Dr Philip McCarthy, Chief Executive of the Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) and Isaac Withers who represented the Catholic youth of England and Wales at a pre-Synod meeting in Rome ahead of the main Synod of Bishops gathering that will cover the theme 'Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment'.