News Archive

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

Marriage Care are the largest faith-based relationship support-specialists in the UK and was founded in the Diocese of Westminster in August 1946 in response to the significant breakdown in marriages following the war. 75 years on the need to...Read more

On Sunday 17th October, the parish of St Joan of Arc, Highbury, marked its centenary with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, and concelebrated by Canon Gerard King and a number of priests who have ministered at the parish....Read more

The tragic death of David Amess creates a painful loss in so many lives. I pray for him that he be welcomed into the merciful presence of Our Heavenly Father. I pray for his family and friends, those reeling from shock at this time. I pray for...Read more

A happy occasion in the brilliant sunshine of a fine autumn Sunday morning in Chiswick was the visit of Cardinal Vincent on 10 Michael Maher, nearly sixty years in the parish, received the medal for his countless hours of service to the Church....Read more