The future of St John Ogilvie’s Catholic Church in Bourtreehill is in doubt. A statement read out at last Sunday's mass by the Sacred Heart Provincial said they could no longer continue to ...

St John Ogilvie Church in Bourtreehill will lose their priest, Father Duncan McVicar, in September when the changes are enforced, which will mean Irvine will be left with one priest, serving both ...

But Scotland has only one martyr from that period — St. John Ogilvie (1579-1615), a Jesuit priest. St. John was not raised Catholic. His father, Walter Ogilvie, was a Calvinist and although he ...

In February 2010, during a visit to Rome by the Scottish bishops' conference, Benedict XVI asked the bishops to promote devotion to St. John Ogilvie among priests – since the Jesuit martyr had ...