The Bishops' Conference of Scotland

The School for Synodality hosts 'Pathways for Implementation: next steps on our synod journey'

Saturday, 18th October 2025
11:00am - 1:30pm (Zoom)

The Final Document of the Synod Assembly was wide ranging and inspirational, and now it's time to progress to the next steps at grass-roots level as we seek to embed synodality in our everyday Catholic life and culture. Includes prayer, small group sharing, testimony, and keynote speaker Bishop Brendan Leahy of the Limerick Diocese in Ireland. Come and explore the next steps of the synodal journey together!

The Roman Catholic Bishops in Scotland work together to undertake nationwide initiatives through their Commissions and Agencies.

The members of the Bishops' Conference are the Bishops of the eight Scottish Dioceses. Where appropriate the Bishops Emeriti (retired) provide a much welcomed contribution to the work of the conference. The Bishops' Conference of Scotland is a permanently constituted assembly which meets regularly throughout the year to address relevant business matters.

Click here to visit the Jubilee 2025 website

The Jubilee Prayer

Father in heaven,

may the faith you have given us

in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother,

and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.

May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.

May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth,

when, with the powers of Evil vanquished,

your glory will shine eternally.

May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope, a yearning for the treasures of heaven. May that same grace spread the joy and peace of our Redeemer throughout the earth.

To you our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise for ever.

Amen

News from the Commissions and Agencies

August 2025

15Aug

Pope Leo celebrates Mass in Castel Gandolfo

15 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

14Aug

A post from Bishops' Conference of Scotland

14 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

14Aug

Season of Creation Conference 2025

14 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

https://www.bcos.org.uk/Care-of-Creation-Office/Conference-2025

Originally from Scotland, Lorna Gold has been an active leader for years in Catholic work on integral ecology and creation care. As an official with Trocaire, the Irish bishops' overseas development agency, she was instrumental in campaigns that led to Ireland and its bishops financially divesting f...

14Aug

Bishop near front lines in Ukraine: ‘Half the exarchate is off-limits' - Vatican News

14 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

One of the youngest bishops in the world serves the community of east-central Ukraine, where the violence continues and has left the cathedral closed ...

14Aug

Pope Leo: Stop the war in Ukraine and the hunger in Gaza

14 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

The hopes of Leo XIV regarding the two ongoing wars and the goals of the Holy See's “soft diplomacy” aimed at resolving crises through dialogue rather ...

13Aug

A post from Bishops' Conference of Scotland

13 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

12Aug

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal | Franciscan Media

12 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-jane-frances-de-chantal/

Jane Frances de Chantal was a wife and the mother of six. When her husband was killed, Saint Jane Frances took a vow not to remarry and sought to join a religious community. She was dissuaded by her spiritual director, Saint Francis de Sales.

12Aug

2025 MARCH FOR LIFE

12 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

2025 MARCH FOR LIFE

In partnership with SPUC you are invited to join Bishop John Keenan on his coach to London for March for Life UK 2025.

Departing midnight Friday 5 September from Paisley St Mirin's Cathedral, with a pickup 12.30am at Glasgow St. Andrew's Cathedral.

Arriving in London at Emmanuel Centre approx. 7.30/8am Saturday 6 September for the Exhibition, Mass, talks and stall.

Departing on Saturday 6 September at approx. 6:00pm, dropping off at Glasgow and Paisley. £30pp.

Further details can be found here 👇

https://www.marchforlife.co.uk/2025-event-page/

To book your seats, please complete the form below and pay £30pp, or £15pp if one way only, by clicking here

https://sponsorme.charitiestrust.org/beneficiary/0101b0fb-d528-4051-8b71-74f8995e2566

#MarchForLife #marchforlife #marchforlife2025 #SPUC #spuc #humanrights #humanrightsforall #humanrightsmatter✔️

11Aug

Saint Clare of Assisi | Franciscan Media

11 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-clare-of-assisi/

Saint Clare referred to herself as a little plant. In many ways, she was a strong oak. The first woman to write a Rule of Life for her sisters, she insisted on the privilege of poverty until her dying breath, getting papal approval of her Rule just days before she died.

10Aug

Nineteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year C - Benedictine Abbey of Christ in the Desert

10 Aug, 2025 | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | BCoS Facebook |

https://christdesert.org/2025/08/nineteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-c-2/

Scripture Readings: Book of Wisdom 18:6-9; Letter to the Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19, Gospel According to Saint Luke 12:32-48 The first reading for Mass this Sunday, from the Book of Wisdom, could be considered a praise of the religious spirit of the Israelites, on the night when their history changed fore...