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Bishop John Sherrington's statement ahead of vote in House of Lords on NI abortion amendmentFollowing a vote in the House of Commons to pass a bill making abortion legal in Northern Ireland on 9 Next week members of the House of Lords will decide on changes to abortion law in Northern Ireland, despite the fact that people there ...
more - Main NewsProtecting the intrinsic good of every life
On Monday 24 The initial judgment by the Court of Protection raises a number of serious concerns. As the judicial proceedings are not available in the public domain at the time of writing, we must rely on news reports for information about wh...
more - Main NewsEngland is Mary's Dowry: A new dedication for today
Why is England called the ‘Dowry of Mary’? Unique among all the nations, the Catholics of England have believed for centuries that their country is in a special sense the Dowry of Mary. The word ‘dowry’ (from the Latin dos, meani...
more - VocationsHoly Land Pilgrimage: Learning to know Christ more deeply
by Fr Mike Maguire Recently, the ‘under 5’s’ went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The under 5’s are a group of Westminster deacons and priests who have been ordained less than five years, meeting a few times a year with Fr Gerard Sk...
more - VocationsFr Chinedu Enuh: Reasons to give thanks
A lot of bonds are made in silence. In seminary life you spend many hours in silence in the chapel whilst, all around you, others are doing the same. For the last year behind me in Allen Hall Seminary chapel sat Deacon Chinedu. He was a Vince...
more - Main NewsEscape from the Tower
Fr John Gerard’s dramatic escape from the Tower of London was the story told by Bishop Nicholas Hudson to celebrate the English Martyrs School’s 50 years at Tower Hill. The children were captivated to hear how Fr John Gerard, imprisoned in th...
more - Main NewsJean Vanier: A Prophetic Voice
‘Do you love me?’ That was the cry Jean Vanier heard in the people with an intellectual disability whom he met in a Picardy psychiatric hospital in 1964. His heart was so touched that he invited two of them to share his home. He called it ‘L...
more - Main NewsA 'beautiful and happy year'
by Ellen Teague As more than 1,000 disabled children and their groups left the annual HCPT Trust Mass in Lourdes during Easter Week, the President of HCPT described this year’s celebration as ‘another beautiful and happy year’. Archbishop Le...
more - Main NewsHospice gives thanks to Fr Paul
A number of parishioners from St Thomas More, Swiss Cottage, gathered at the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead. The hospice wanted to thank our Assistant Priest Fr Paul Diaper and present him with a gift for his contribution and commitment to Marie C...
more - Main NewsChaplain’s vital work with seafarers
Last September, Wojciech Holub, Stella Maris, Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) chaplain to the port of Tilbury on the Thames in Essex, provided pastoral support to the crew of the chemical and oil tanker ‘The crew were terribly distraught and overc...
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