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In a Pastoral Letter for the 5th Sunday of Lent 2010, read out in parishes in the Diocese of Westminster on 20 and 21 March 2010, Archbishop Vincent Nichols has said that the Lenten journey is not a time for blaming others but a time for identifying our own faults, seeking forgiveness for them and trying to build a more virtuous life.Read more

The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, received an honorary doctoral degree from Birmingham City University, during an Awards Congregation, held at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, on Monday 15 February, writes Peter Jennings.Read more

Cardinal Cahal Daly, Primate of All Ireland from 1990-1996, died on New Year's Eve, aged 92.Read more

In his homily for Westminster Cathedral's Christmas 2009 Midnight Mass, Archbishop Vincent Nichols has questioned the wisdom of the world that tells us happiness comes from wealth, status, celebrity and how we are regarded by society.Read more

The Most Rev Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, has made an official visit to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Europe's first traditional Hindu temple in Neasden...Read more

Archbishop Vincent Nichols has announced the appointment of Canon Pat Browne as the Parliamentary Roman Catholic Duty Priest.Read more

Joint Statement by The Archbishop of Westminster and The Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith s note about Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church.Read more

The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster celebrated the Capitular Mass of St Edward the Confessor on 13 October at Westminster Cathedral, in the presence of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux.Read more

The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols has issued his first Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of Westminster since his installation as Archbishop of Westminster in May 2009.Read more

Jack Sullivan, the American Permanent Deacon, who was miraculously cured of a serious spinal disorder through the intercession of Cardinal Newman, in August 2001, has accepted an invitation from Archbishop Vincent Nichols, President of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, to visit London, Birmingham and Oxford, during November.Read more

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph Archbishop Nichols says that while social networking sites can improve communication, they do not build rounded communities.Read more

I start to write this reflection on Diocesan Priesthood on the thirty sixth anniversary of my ordination. Many of the emotions and feelings of joy, excitement, reticence and anticipation of that day come flooding back to me like it was just yesterday.Read more

The Vatican today released Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate.Read more

Pope Benedict XVI today recognised the healing of Deacon Jack Sullivan in 2001 as a miracle resulting from the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God John Henry Newman.Read more