"Everybody’s welcome" is the name of the plan launched by the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales in response to "Listening 2004", a seventy-page document and the fruit of interviews with fifteen thousand Catholic people which was developed last year, and which showed that the Catholic families of the country want support and assistance from the Church but often feel its lesson is an excessively hard moral code to be followed and would rather belong to a more caring and friendly community. "Everybody’s welcome" will last three years and will be funded by 1,636,000 pounds (about 2,337,142 euros). The three-year plan includes days devoted to welcoming newcomers to the parish, days devoted to family problems, to the house as a "sacred place", to the exploration of new methods for communicating faith. The next weekend(January 21-22), at High Leigh, Hertfordshire (southern England), a conference will be held about families and how parishes can help families solve their problems.
