Bishop Nicholas Hudson Addresses and Homilies

There was a parish which invited a famous actor to come and recite some of their favourite writings. The actor recited all different kinds of texts.   As the evening neared its end, he said he would recite just one more. They asked him to recite...Read more

At Christmas we celebrate God's eternal youth in the child born in Bethlehem.  I was touched, on arriving in Krakow for World Youth Day, to hear Pope Francis say to the young pilgrims, 'The world wants to learn from you that the Father's me...Read more

'Paid to a Frenchman who took away the priest's bowels after he had been hanged: 20s; for coals to make the fire: 6d; for a wright's axe, to behead the priest: 4s. 6d; for a hand axe and a cutting knife, to rip and quarter him: 14d; and for ...Read more

Extract from the homily given at the Apostleship of the Sea Stella Maris Mass at Westmisnter Cathedral on 22 September 2016. Hail, Queen of Heaven has to be one of my favourite hymns. I think it's due partly to the fact that I find the stars ...Read more

Jesus is preparing his friends for his departure. He tells them, 'the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them.' I like the slightly irreverent story of how when Jesus ascended to heaven, the first person he met was the Ar...Read more

I wept when I heard the news on Friday morning of the terrorist atrocity in Nice. When I heard how many children and young people had been crushed, I thought, 'the Massacre of the Innocents'! I wept. And I am sure Jesus wept too. His visit, of...Read more

Ladies and Gentlemen, Service is the key to discipleship. That's the message Jesus wants us to take from the Gospel which we heard in today's Mass. 'The one who rules is to be the one who serves,' he says. And 'I am among you as one w...Read more

Exactly one hundred years ago, politicians, generals and countless families were coming to terms with the casualties of that fateful first day of battle. Some 20,000 had been killed and another 40,000 were wounded or reported missing. Walking alon...Read more

The Last Judgement could be really difficult! Some you will have been here in 1994 when Cardinal Hume told you as much: 'the last Judgement might be embarrassing for many of us,' he said.  To hear the Lord say, 'I was hungry and you gave me...Read more

Dear Carlos, Joseph, Julio and Michael, thank you for offering yourselves today for service as deacons.  By ordaining you on this feast day, the Church gives you a good patron to accompany you for the rest of your lives in the person of Barnabas ...Read more

Jean-Pierre Bély was an intensive care nurse who began to experience profound tiredness in his mid-thirties and in his late forties was diagnosed with MS and became wheelchair-bound. Friends and family suggested he go on pilgrimage to Lourdes. H...Read more

It's good always, on Ash Wednesday, to remind ourselves that Lent means 'lengthening'. And, of course, it's true: no sooner does Lent start than we begin to notice the days lengthening; we realise the spring equinox is approaching,  or, r...Read more