News Archive
Come and hear more about how JRS is supporting refugees in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon as well as here in the UK and find out what you can do to help.Read more
The Westminster Churches Winter Night Shelter, which is supported by Caritas Westminster, is now in its fourth month and has been going from strength to strength.Read more
On 30 January, Cardinal Vincent addressed the second international coordinating meeting of Talitha Kum, the international network of consecrated life against trafficking in human persons. The Cardinal expressed his 'admiration for the witness' whi...Read more
Cardinal Vincent paid tribute to the Catholic Philanthropist Arthur Gubay who died on 5 January 2016 on the day that the Arthur Gubay Charitable Foundation announced it expected to make £10 million in donations to charities annually.Â
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Students from Catholic sixth forms from across West London convened at City Hall on 2February for the first ever meet of the London Catholic Sixth Form Debating Association. The debating competition was a quick-fire battle with teams given just mi...Read more
On 26 January we held our first event of the year, the hugely popular Refugee Volunteer Evening. We welcomed over a hundred people from all over London and Hertfordshire, all keen to hear how local organisations are responding to the migrant crisi...Read more
The Hungarian pilgrimage dedicated to St Thomas Becket takes place in May. The saint's relics from the Diocese of Esztergom will be reunited with his relics from the Cathedral and become the focus of a week-long celebration. Ahead of the pilgrim...Read more
As we reach the end of the Year of Consecrated Life on
2 February, the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life, Fr Richard Nesbitt met with Fr Christopher Jamison, Director of the National Office of Vocation, to ask him for his reflections on th...Read more
Miss Laura Martin has been appointed as the founding Headteacher of St Anthony's School for Girls. It was recently announced that Ivy House, North End Road, would become the home of this new school, which opens in September 2016.
Miss Martin ha...Read more
My name is Anushka Binoy and I am eleven years old.
I live in Isleworth and attend St Mary's Catholic Primary School. Recently I passed British Mensa IQ test with a score of 162. I was very happy when I had been accepted to this exclusive society....Read more
From earliest times, a devotion to the Way of the Cross grew as Christians wished to walk in the footsteps of the Lord in his ascent to Mount Calvary. As pilgrimage to Jerusalem was difficult and arduous, many local churches established Stations o...Read more
Cardinal Vincent blessed and formally opened the new Sixth Form and Art and Design Building at St Benedict's School on Thursday 28 January, the Feast Day of St Thomas Aquinas. The building will provide a fitting and lasting memory of Headmaster ...Read more
The two mosaics on either side of the High Altar in the Cathedral show clearly the elements of the deacon's life. The mosaic on the left is of St Stephen, the first deacon and the first martyr. He was chosen by Peter to assist with the distribut...Read more
In 1866 Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, the third Archbishop of Westminster purchased a beautiful 18th century house in the quiet village of Mill Hill in North London. He took up residence there with one student and in effect, the Mill Hill Missionaries...Read more
On the Feast of the Presentation, 2 February 2016, Cardinal Vincent celebrated the annual Mass for Consecrated Life. This celebration, however, Read more
As Fr Perry Sykes explains proudly: 'All the diversity of people you see on the Underground is present right here in this parish.'
In his homily, Bishop Nicholas took as his theme how others see us. Looking at the life of St Paul and the exam...Read more