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Sr Elizabeth O'Donohoe HC, who has been a loyal and committed member of the Westminster Interfaith team for many years, recently received an award for furthering the cause of peace through interfaith dialogue and collaboration. She was one of t...Read more

On Tuesday 30 The gathering was opened by Diocesan Youth Chaplain Fr Mark Walker, who thanked the nearly 90 young people for coming to hear the reflections of the Cardinal and to discuss them with their peers. He led the audience in The Car...Read more

by Fr David Stewart SJ One of our innovations, as we have been redeveloping the Pope's personal Prayer Network (the Apostleship of Prayer, as it was known), is our hugely popular Click-to-Pray online service. It's the Pope's app that conn...Read more

I feel deeply moved to be with you in Tyne Cot because my grandfather, Eric Hudson, fought here in the Battle of Passchendaele and survived. We gather here in a spirit of what the ancient Romans called 'pietas'. 'Pietas', for the Romans, m...Read more

by Fr Nicholas Schofield, Diocesan Archivist 'The days of warfare,' wrote Cardinal Bourne in the Westminster Cathedral Chronicle of December 1918, 'are gradually changing into the days of peace. The constant peril from the skies that for ...Read more

We would like to draw to your attention this new partnership, which was launched to a gathering of the Bishops of England and Wales and their Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Coordinators and members of the organisations themselves at the recent ...Read more

by Barbara Kentish  'Decernimus' or 'we so decree', said Pope Francis, concluding the surprisingly simple ritual which added Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI and five others to the canon of the saints of the Catholic Church on 14th October. ...Read more

By Fr Lawrence Lew OP London is home to Catholics from all over the world. The diverse cultural expressions of our Catholic faith that the various ethnic communities bring with them to this city enriches our diocese by giving us a vivid sense o...Read more

By Martha Behan I am no stranger to dating apps. I am single, 24, and I live in London, very much the target audience. I am also a Catholic who has only ever used secular dating apps. So when my friend and sometime colleague asked me to review ...Read more

By Fr Mark Vickers It was my first time on Liverpool's impressive waterfront. We had definitely left summer behind in London; it was a blustery, autumnal day by the Mersey. Yet immediately it felt like home. So many familiar faces, fellow cle...Read more

By Fr Mark Vickers Congress Day: Saturday, 8 September In the second of three parts, Fr Mark Vickers reviews the events of the Congress, which took place on the second day, pointing out the many riches explored in the keynote addresses, test...Read more

by Cardinal Vincent Nichols My memories of sunshine in August may now have faded, but the sense of shock and shame that marked that month have not. In many ways it has been the most disturbing of times in the life of the Church for 50 years. Th...Read more

Staff, students and friends from Allen Hall Seminary and St Edmund's College travelled to Douai, France, on Saturday 29th September to mark the 450th anniversary of the founding of the English College by Cardinal William Allen in 1568. Archbis...Read more

by Bishop John Sherrington The Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the World Methodist Council and the Roman Catholic Church met in Hong Kong from 12 to 19 October, hosted by the World Methodist Council with support ...Read more