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Lent is a gift to prepare us to celebrate Easter worthily. It is a time in which we can reflect more deeply on our spiritual and temporal life. In daily life we tend to make things more complex than they need be, rather than to place simplicity at...Read more

Just before the start of Lent, Cardinal Vincent launched his annual Lenten Appeal, which this year focuses on the problem of food poverty and food insecurity. At the same time, he announced the launch of a new food relief initiative across the…Read more

Turibius was the second son of the Lord of Mogrovejo, born in Spain on 16 He was raised in a religious household but never felt a calling to the religious life. Instead, he studied law and became a professor at the distinguished University of S...Read more

by Fr Michael Daley, Parish Priest of Holy Cross, Parsons Green Pope Leo XIII On Sunday 3rd February 2019, a new piece of art by the renowned religious iconographer and sculptor Stephen Foster, entitled the 'Throne of Mercy' was solemnl...Read more

Bishop Paul McAleenan has called for MPs to support a 28-day time limit on immigration detention, saying that detaining people indefinitely 'does not reflect the justice due to every person that we as a nation pride ourselves on upholding'. I...Read more

If you or someone you know were a child of the Kindertransport who was classed as a Jew under the Nuremburg laws but who subsequently practised Christianity, either by choice or as a result of your host families or spouse being of the Christian fa...Read more

by Fr Michael Dunne, Parish Priest of Our Lady of Grace, Chiswick Prayer is normally an activity, the raising of the heart and mind to God, or it can be, more contemplatively, a resting in the Lord, more a state of being. But in our church it i...Read more

Archbishop Angaelos led an ecumenical group on pilgrimage to Egypt from 27th January to 1st February 2019. The group consisted of representatives from the Church of England, the Catholic Church (among them Fr Dominic Robinson from Farm Street), th...Read more

Princilla Agyemang, age 14, from St Gregory's Catholic Science College in Kenton, Harrow, beat 740 pupils across Brent to win the regional final of the Jack Petchey Speak Out! Challenge on January 23rd. Princilla impressed a large and distingui...Read more

So said Solicitor Penny Carey, Dean of Law School, University of Hertfordshire, and Chair of judges for the fourth Province 14 Catenian Association Sixth Form Public Speaking Challenge. 'The standard this year was even higher and with more schoo...Read more

By Fr David Stewart SJ Once again the Holy Father invites us to join our hearts to his, and together to Christ's, praying about the concerns that face humanity and church. The purpose of this, his personal network of prayer, is to mobilise ou...Read more

It was an important meeting, attended by every president of a bishops' conference from around the world, together with Religious leaders. There was something like 140-plus countries represented, considering this drama, this terrible tragedy of c...Read more

By Sr Marian Ward In recognition of Fr Bernard Boylan's dedication and commitment of nearly twenty-four years as Parish Priest, a farewell party was organised by the parishioners of St Theodore of Canterbury Church, Hampton-on-Thames, a wonde...Read more