Cardinal's Homilies
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
Our new Holy Father chose the name Francis to signal his special concern for the poor of the world.Read more
This evening we gather here in this Cathedral to give thanks to God for our new Holy Father, Pope Francis. Together with so many from Latin America, we thank God for this gift to the Church from Argentina!Read more
Westminster Cathedral: Celebration of Mass with Participants in the CCEE Meeting of Bishops and Representatives for Relations with Muslims in EuropeRead more
Westminster Cathedral 28 April 2013 Since his election to the See of Peter, Pope Francis has caught the imagination of the world. This he has done through word and deed. His call to love and respect those in our midst who are most poor and needy ...Read more
My brothers and sisters: these are precious moments. Today we are saddened at heart by the death of Fr Jim Brand. We miss his gracious and joyful presence.Read more