Cardinal's Homilies
Holy Trinity Church Chipping Norton 14 October 2013 On Saturday, in the Office of Readings, there was a passage from Pope Gregory the Great about us priests. It quoted the Gospel saying that the harvest is plentiful but the labourers few and went ...Read more
Mass to open the Academic Year at Newman House Sunday 13th October 2013 At this Freshers Mass many of you are coming together for the first time, beginning your life here in the Universities of London. For others this is a return to the disciples ...Read more
When we look at our world through the eyes of Jesus, then we see it in the light of truth.Read more
Today, we celebrate this Mass in thanksgiving for the history and achievements of the London Oratory School.Read more
Walsingham is a place of pilgrimage. So too is a Catholic school. And a pilgrimage is an image, a practice run, for life itself. So too, in many ways, is the project of a Catholic school.Read more
Today is an historic occasion as we mark the formal opening and dedication of this new Catholic College, comprising St Richard Reynolds Catholic Primary School and St Richard Reynolds Catholic High School.Read more
Through this journey into being with the Lord we are, as it were, fuelled for our missionRead more
Many tributes have rightly been paid to Michael in the days since his sad death on 31 July.Read more
All too soon we are here, taking this step towards the formal ending of our pilgrimage together. Later this afternoon we will say our final public prayers as we place our candle to burn before the...Read more
Thursday 25 July 2013 For us all roads lead here. This is the purpose and end of our journeying: to be here, in the Grotto in Lourdes, where Our Lady came to meet Bernadette and where she comes to meet us too. Today we claim as a patron and compa...Read more
I welcome you all to our pilgrimage here in Lourdes. We have come by plane, boat, train and coach. But our journey has had one purpose: to bring us here, to meet together at the shrine of Mary our beloved Mother.Read more
Today we give thanks to God, with great joy, for the gift of eight new priests. And what a gift this is!Read more
Today we remember the founders of Catholic Care, lay men and women, priests and bishops, most substantially heroic religious women, all of whom responded with courage and love to the poverty and need that surrounded them.Read more
Today's Mass is such an important event. And it is a joyful, blessed and amazing even.Read more
Ice cream is my favourite dessert. Rather, it used to be. That is until I read about the case in 1932 which made the parable of the Good Samaritan so significant for the legal profession.Read more
It's an immense privilege to be preaching at the annual View Day service.Read more