News Archive
On 27th September JFK School in Hemel Hempstead, marked the beginning of their Golden Jubilee year with a whole-school Mass, joined by members of the Governing Body and the headteachers of local Catholic primary schools. The Mass was celebrated by...Read more
It is a busy time in the Vocations world, as with some of our seminarians we go out to parishes and schools to see what we can do to help men discern the Lord's call to priesthood. These events are usually focused on the seminarians giving their...Read more
The theme of this year's pilgrimage to Walsingham was 'Lift up the Lowly'. This is to focus our reflection on the first World Day of the Poor on 19
After Mass was lunch, and pilgrims were invited to use the new Pilgrim Hall and eat their lu...Read more
by Mgr Mark Langham
There are two incidents in the earlier life of Cardinal Cormac that awakened his interest in ecumenism: the first was meeting his local Anglican clergy in his parish in Portsmouth Diocese and finding out that they were rather ...Read more
The plain coffin, notably tall but bearing no decoration other than a cross, expressed well the dignified, non-fussy character of Cardinal Cormac. Previous Cardinals had lain in caskets lifted on lofty trestles, surrounded by ornate gilded candles...Read more
by Cardinal Vincent Nichols
The Funeral Mass for our late Archbishop, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, was an unforgettable experience. Mine was a privileged role and its impact on me will stay with me forever.
In particular, I shall never for...Read more
by Melanie McDonagh
The last time I saw Cardinal Cormac, it was at the Proms. Last year we'd gone to Verdi's Requiem for the penultimate night; this year he suggested Stephen Hough who was playing Brahms' First Piano Concerto, passing on ...Read more
On 19th September, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See's Secretariat of State, made the following intervention at a High Level Leaders Event at the United Nations.
The Holy See's involvement in...Read more
'Process' has been adopted as a new, modern word. Over the past month my niece has been staying a couple of days each week while she searches for a flat in London. It is always a delight to see her. She cooks a meal and the two of us sit down ...Read more
by Fr David Stewart
In this month of October, Pope Francis has asked us to pray with him: That all workers may receive respect and protection of their rights, and that the unemployed may receive the opportunity to contribute to the common good. Y...Read more
by Andrew Nicoll
On 13th May 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously injured. From that moment, the future saint developed a profound emotional relationship with the appearances of Our Lady to three children in a field close to the village...Read more
by Mgr Phelim Rowland
I have known four Cardinal Archbishops of Westminster, all gifted men in different ways. Cardinal Cormac combined a sharp mind with Celtic charm. I suppose it was the latter that I appreciated most, having the same backgroun...Read more
by Fr Jeremy Trood
It was entirely predictable that many of the obituaries of Cormac, Cardinal Murphy- O'Connor should concentrate on child abuse and his role in the scandal which engulfed the Church at the turn of the millennium. When he becam...Read more
by Fr Kevin Dring
I was Cardinal Cormac's last priest secretary in Arundel & Brighton, being with him in those heady days when he was appointed as the new Archbishop of Westminster. The time living and working with Cormac were some of the happies...Read more
by Sr Clement Doran
When he was appointed Archbishop of Westminster in 2000 Cardinal Cormac (then Bishop of Arundel & Brighton, in which our Augustinian mother house is situated) asked our Mother General Sr Thomas if three sisters could join him ...Read more
Dear Cardinal Vincent,
I send to you, his confreres and family my deepest condolences on the death of Cardinal Cormac.
Cormac's death evokes such a depth of sorrow at the absence of that hearty laugh, that face that exuded such a depth of huma...Read more