Cardinal's Addresses

Thanks to St Mary's for this initiative, and its partnership with the Institut Catholique. Thanks to Dr Moran for his fascinating and first-hand experience in the work of reconciliation in Northern Ireland. We are privileged to have this pers...Read more

Welcome to this historic event.  Not often have so many from our schools come together and certainly not in this distinguished hall. It gives me the opportunity of thanking you all for your tremendous work in Catholic education, in the schools an...Read more

Good afternoon, it is a pleasure to be here once again in Parliament for the sixth annual Caritas Social Action Network reception. It is greatly encouraging, as it is every year, to see so many charities, supporters and parliamentarians gathered t...Read more

Most Holy Father, Thank you for this privilege of meeting with you today. We recall with joy your presence, on the 10 April 2014, at the first meeting of this Santa Marta Group. On that day, with your encouragement, we gave our commitment to deve...Read more

My dear friends, I welcome you and thank you most sincerely for your presence and participation in this meeting. Many words of welcome and thanks have already been expressed and I do not need to repeat them, although they are strongly present i...Read more

In the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi there are three paintings by Caravaggio telling the story of St Matthew. I am sure you are familiar with them. The first is entitled theCalling of St Matthew and it is an excellent starting point for these r...Read more

Human trafficking and modern slavery are 'grievous wounds in the flesh of humanity'.  These words were spoken by Pope Francis in April 2014 at a meeting in Rome bringing together representatives of law enforcement agencies from around the ...Read more

I started serious preparation for this talk at the time of the Feast of the Assumption and l begin with a quotation from that Office of Readings, from the Letter to the Ephesians:  'I have never stopped thanking God for you. I remember you in ...Read more

The title of this talk, 'Confinement is not the same thing as exclusion', is taken from words of Pope Francis spoken in the penitentiary in Philadelphia earlier this year. It reminds us that prisoners are never to be forgotten, written off. Ra...Read more

Vice-chancellor,  Thank you very much for the honour you bestow on me today. I am truly grateful for the recognition that this honorary degree represents: recognition not just of some personal achievements, elegantly presented by the universit...Read more

I am delighted to be here today to share with you in the satisfaction and pride of this moment.  Receiving your degrees is a special moment, one which marks a huge step in your lives and one which is rightly shared by family and friends. Congr...Read more

I am grateful to have this opportunity of expressing my greetings to you all as you gather for this Anglophone Safeguarding Conference at the invitation of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and the Bishops' Conference of Kenya. I regret...Read more

Given at the Symposium on St Thomas Becket at Lambeth Palace on 27 May 2016. Read more

Given at the Special Conference held at the United Nations on 7 April 2016 on the combatting of human trafficking and modern slavery.  Mr President, Your Excellencies, Sisters, ladies and gentlemen,  I am honoured to address you this after...Read more