News Archive

On 20th July 2019 Bishop Nicholas celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving at Our Lady Refuge of Sinners and St Catherine of Siena at Bow to mark 150 years exactly since Archbishop Manning laid the foundation stone. Special recognition was paid to Fr McQ...Read more

The World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated on the last Sunday of September, 29th September 2019. The theme for this year is 'It's not just about migrants'. Pope Francis has chosen this theme to stimulate our prayer and action ...Read more

Following the announcement by Pope Francis of Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald MAfr. as one of ten new Cardinals to be nominated at the consistory of 5th October, Cardinal Vincent has written to the Cardinal-designate to congratulate him 'most warmly...Read more

Following the announcement by Pope Francis of  Fr Michael Czerny SJ among the ten new cardinals to be nominated at the consistory on 5 In the letter, Cardinal Vincent writes: 'Congratulations on your nomination to the College of Cardinals!  '...Read more

World Mission Sunday is the one day in the year when the entire Church comes together to pray for and offer practical support for mission. This year it takes place on 20   The Extraordinar y Month of Mission (EMM2019) marks the 100th anniversa....Read more

CAFOD's Family Fast Day has a long tradition of supporting communities around the world. This year on Friday 4 The idea of a Family Fast Day began in 1960 when a group of Catholic women heard about a mother and baby clinic in Dominica that need...Read more

Marking the end of the annual Volunteers Week, which aims to celebrate the fantastic contribution volunteers make to our communities, the Caritas Westminster's Volunteer Fair brought together a range of charities and social action projects from ...Read more

I was recently struck by the parallels between the need for prayer and the need for open communication in marriage and family life when re-reading Fr Bernard Basset's (SJ) little book Let's Start Praying Again. Published in 1970, Fr Basset pai...Read more

  As we prepare for our diocesan pilgrimage to Walsingham in September, it is good to recall the significance of Our Lady's shrine in pre-Reformation times. Last May, at an Anglican celebration in honour of Our Lady of Walsingham, the statue of...Read more

The Bishops of England and Wales renewed their commitment to the principles of According to British Gas Business, more than 4,500 Catholic churches and schools (including around 200 parishes in our diocese) have switched to renewable gas and el...Read more

We were delighted to welcome 200 patrons, donors, and guests to this year's Patrons' Mass on 10th July in Westminster Cathedral, to honour the sick and retired priests of our diocese. Sixteen of our retired priests joined Cardinal Vincent in…Read more

St Helen's Church in Watford celebrated the retirement of the much-loved priest Fr Pat Foley, who is considered by his parishioners to be one of the finest and most dedicated priests of the diocese. Fr Pat, from Donoughmore, County Cork, Ireland,...Read more

There are, it seems to me, two principal reasons why Blessed John Henry Newman resonates today. Firstly, Newman embraced change. He famously declared 'To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often'. An examination of Newm...Read more