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Following a vote in the House of Commons to pass a bill making abortion legal in Northern Ireland on 9   Next week members of the House of Lords will decide on changes to abortion law in Northern Ireland, despite the fact that people there ...Read more

by Fr Mike Maguire   Recently, the 'under 5's' went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The under 5's are a group of Westminster deacons and priests who have been ordained less than five years, meeting a few times a year with Fr Gerard Sk...Read more

On Monday 24   The initial judgment by the Court of Protection raises a number of serious concerns.  As the judicial proceedings are not available in the public domain at the time of writing, we must rely on news reports for information about wh...Read more

­   Why is England called the 'Dowry of Mary'? Unique among all the nations, the Catholics of England have believed for centuries that their country is in a special sense the Dowry of Mary. The word 'dowry' (from the Latin dos, meani...Read more

  A lot of bonds are made in silence. In seminary life you spend many hours in silence in the chapel whilst, all around you, others are doing the same. For the last year behind me in Allen Hall Seminary chapel sat Deacon Chinedu.  He was a Vince...Read more

Fr John Gerard's dramatic escape from the Tower of London was the story told by Bishop Nicholas Hudson to celebrate the English Martyrs School's 50 years at Tower Hill. The children were captivated to hear how Fr John Gerard, imprisoned in th...Read more

'Do you love me?' That was the cry Jean Vanier heard in the people with an intellectual disability whom he met in a Picardy psychiatric hospital in 1964. His heart was so touched that he invited two of them to share his home. He called it 'L...Read more

by Ellen Teague As more than 1,000 disabled children and their groups left the annual HCPT Trust Mass in Lourdes during Easter Week, the President of HCPT described this year's celebration as 'another beautiful and happy year'. Archbishop Le...Read more

A number of parishioners from St Thomas More, Swiss Cottage, gathered at the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead. The hospice wanted to thank our Assistant Priest Fr Paul Diaper and present him with a gift for his contribution and commitment to Marie C...Read more

Last September, Wojciech Holub, Stella Maris, Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) chaplain to the port of Tilbury on the Thames in Essex, provided pastoral support to the crew of the chemical and oil tanker 'The crew were terribly distraught and overc...Read more

On Tuesday 18June representatives from 14 diocesan schools joined Cardinal Vincent at Westminster Cathedral for a celebration of Mass, ending the year-long 'Our Eucharistic Journey' initiative, the diocesan response to Adoremus. Read more

On 4 In 2017 the church's current Parish Priest, Fr Guy Sawyer set out on a mission to mark in May 2019 the 125 On Friday, 24 On Sunday, 23 After the consecration, the parish family gathered socially with the Cardinal; it was, 'a church in...Read more

by Fr Lawrence Lew OP   The Dominican friars have been propagators of the devotion of the Holy Rosary for centuries. Indeed tradition holds that Our Lady gave the Rosary to St Dominic, and, for almost 800 years, the Dominicans have been preaching...Read more

Evangelisation is first and foremost about an encounter with Jesus Christ. For many who passed through Trafalgar Square on Pentecost Sunday, it would have been just that: an encounter, maybe for the first time, through his disciples, with Jesus Ch...Read more