News Archive
The Diocesan Policy on Religious Education has been revised and updated to take into account recent developments, including the revised edition of the Bishops' Religious Education Curriculum Directory (2012), the revised edition of the Diocesan 'R...Read more
Saturday 2nd July 2011, the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, was a great day for our diocese as we celebrated the ordination of four new priests. Each had travelled a very different journey to bring them to this moment of life-long commitme...Read more
The permanent diaconate is open to both single and married men. If a married man is thinking about the permanent diaconate it is essential that he discerns this vocation with his wife, so that it is a decision made within the unity of one's marr...Read more
After my dream, I avidly read the life of Marie Madeleine d'Houet, foundress of the Faithful Companions of Jesus and was fascinated and inspired by her journey. She had been a wife, widow, and mother, before ever becoming a religious. She was a ...Read more
In June I will be celebrating 25 years of priesthood. When and where was my vocation nurtured? There are different answers: in heaven in God's plan, in baptism when I was presented at the font on a January day in 1958, through God's call in pa...Read more
A new Catholic Primary and Secondary School will be developed for residents of the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames following approval by Richmond Council at a Cabinet meeting on Thursdsay 24 May 2012.Read more
Saturday 26th May 2012 saw the 27thAnnual London Multi-Faith Pilgrimage for Peace in the East End of London. It was the second occasion on which I had been able to join this inspiring walk. I was only one of over 100 pilgrims from a wide range of beliefs, who were able to bear witness to their faiths.Read more
In the Bishop Dunn Memorial Lecture given on Tuesday 15 May 2012, at Ushaw College, Durham, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, called on all Catholics to think about how best to express their faith in their lives today.Read more
Every year in June pilgrims from different parts of the country gather together in Walsingham for the annual Vocations Pilgrimage. This is a day of prayer, procession and adoration for men and women of all ages to join together in prayer before Our Lady of Walsingham in the intention of an increase in vocations to the priesthood, consecrated life and marriage.Read more
The Invocation Festival is a unique event in the life of the Catholic Church in England. For those of you who are not familiar with the festival, it is aimed at ordinary Catholics, men and women (aged 16-35), who are looking to develop their relationship with Christ and who are searching for the knowledge and tools to develop their own personal formation, discernment and understanding of God's will for their lives. For some this may mean being, or becoming open to the possibility of a vocation to the priesthood or religious life.Read more
Parish singers and musicians of all ages and abilities are invited to this workshop on Saturday 16th June, 10am - 1pm, to learn music on the theme of Peace as part of the 100 Days of Peace initiative.Read more
Over 2,000 Catholic migrants living and working in London attended a special Mass for Migrants at Westminster Cathedral on Bank Holiday Monday, 7 May 2012, the Feast of St Joseph the Worker.Read more
The Catholic Education Service have published new staffing procedures replacing the existing 2004 ones.Read more
On Thursday, 19 April 2012, some nine months after London's civil disturbances, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, has met young people in Hackney who are helping to create safer neighbourhoods.Read more
The latest issue of diocesan magazine is now available to read or download.Read more
Before settling in London in 1984 for what turned out to be a career spanning twenty five years in the Education Service of the Westminster Diocese, I had taught as Head of Religious Education at a school in East London, and then lectured for a fe...Read more