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‘Everyone knew refugees were crossing the Channel in unseaworthy craft. It happened yesterday and the day before and in increasing numbers in recent weeks. It will happen again tomorrow and will continue unless determined concerted action is…Read more
Following the tragic death of 27 migrants who drowned near Calais as they attempted to cross the Channel on Wednesday 24 'The terrible loss of so many lives in the Channel is a tragic summons to action. This event illustrates graphically both the…Read more
On Tuesday 23rd November, Cardinal Vincent Nichols celebrated the Funeral Mass of Sir David Amess MP, who was tragically killed at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in October. Joining the Amess family to remember Sir David were his…Read more
During the pandemic, public worship was suspended for a time and there have been restrictions on parish life. As a result, people have been exploring other ways to practice their faith, including Spiritual Communion via live streaming. As people…Read more
The annual Remembrance Sunday Requiem Mass for the Fallen was celebrated on 14 Men and women from various branches of the Forces, including the King's Troop Horse Artillery, the Royal Air Force and Royal Marines, attended the Mass in uniform, to…Read more
By Reverend Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage & Family Life Co0rdinator for the Diocese of Westminster I have three vocations: Christian; husband and deacon, it is the former that informs the whole and for me, Zacchaeus is the model of domestic…Read more
Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick have agreed to work together to establish a joint group to study 'the access given, or refused, to Catholic priests to scenes of traumatic violence'. In particular,…Read more
Forty families in Hitchin are the first members of the Hitchin Pantry. This new project is a community supermarket, which allows its members to do a weekly shop for their family, whilst keeping the bill at a fixed, affordable price. During the…Read more
Speaking to Times Radio ahead of the COP26 summit, Cardinal Vincent drew attention to the complexity of the issues that the world is currently facing. ‘This is not simply a summit about the production of energy, although that is crucially…Read more
On Sunday 24 The anniversary of the founding of the parish on 24 In thanking the Cardinal for his patience in waiting a whole year to celebrate this Mass, the chairman of the Pastoral Parish Council, Peter Stuart, observed that the celebration…Read more
Ahead of the meeting of world leaders at the COP26 UN climate summit, Cardinal Vincent has written to the Prime Minister to express the hopes of the Catholic community in England and Wales. Describing the global ecological crisis as 'a dark cloud…Read more
Cardinal Vincent Nichols shared his thoughts in this video recorded after a service of prayer and reflection, and welcome for Little Amal to Westminster Cathedral. Little Amal is a 3.5 metre-tall puppet of a 10-year old unaccompanied Syrian…Read more
The sad news of the death of Fr David John Irwin was received today. Fr David died at home in Findon Village, Worthing where he had been living in retirement. Fr David was born on 1 March 1944 and was ordained as a Catholic priest on 4 December…Read more
About a thousand people gathered in Westminster Cathedral to welcome Little Amal, the 3.5m puppet of a 10-year old unaccompanied Syrian refugee girl, on 25th October. Her journey across Europe, from the Turkey-Syria border to Manchester, is…Read more
Bishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Bishops’ Conference, has thanked Catholics for writing to peers and praying that Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill might be defeated. In a brief statement issued after the…Read more
The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chief Rabbi warn of the risk to vulnerable people should Parliament back a new attempt to change the law on assisted suicide. In a joint letter to peers, Cardinal…Read more