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Caritas Award Medal

             The Caritas Award Medal, which has been introduced by the Bishops of Scotland as part of a legacy of the UK visit of Pope Benedict XVI, will be presented to 450 young people in the Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow on the afternoon of S...

Caritas Awards Ceremony

The inaugural Caritas Awards Ceremony will take place in the Clyde Auditorium Glasgow on Saturday 2nd June from 2pm till 4pm.  Around 450 young people will be presented with the Award in front of a capacity audience of 3,000 from schools and parishe...

Caritas Award Final Submissions

As the deadline looms for submitting entries for the Caritas Award, we hope to receive around 500 submissions from schools across the country and a few from parishes where there are no Catholic schools.  Of course, some students have been facing the...

Caritas Award Update 14th February 2012

"love of neighbour will no longer be for them a commandment imposed, so to speak, from without, but a consequence deriving from their faith, a faith which becomes active through love." (Deus Caritas Est #31)       During this school year over 700...

Pope urges parents and teachers to pay attention to young people

Pope Benedict XVI, in his message for the 45th International Day of Peace, which will be celebrated on 1st January 2012, encouraged young people to offer new hope to the world.  He called for parents, as the first educators of their children, to tra...

Caritas Award Update 10th August 2011

"Only if I serve my neighbour can my eyes be opened to what God does for me and how much he loves me." (Deus Caritas Est #18) During the school holidays we have been busy preparing resources to get the Caritas Award scheme fully underway in schools a...

Caritas Award update 2nd June 2011

At the recent seminar for all schools which have expressed interest participating in a pilot scheme for the new Pope Benedict XVI Caritas Award scheme in session 2011-12, there was a very impressive turnout of 49 secondary schools - almost 95% of Cat...

Schools welcome new Pope Benedict XVI CARITAS AWARD

There has been a great surge of interest from Catholic secondary schools who want to enrol pupils for the new Pope Benedict XVI CARITAS AWARD scheme which has been launched by the Scottish Catholic Education Service on behalf of the Bishops of Scotla...

Pope Benedict XVI Caritas Award

“Love - Caritas - is an extraordinary force.” All Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been invited to participate in a pilot scheme for a new award which is being created to recognise and promote young people who commit time in their...