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by Tom Henry 3rd December 2016 will be a significant date in the history of the Tyburn nuns. It was on this day that the initiation ceremony for the cause for Mother Marie Adele Garnier, the foundress of the order, took place at the monastery i...Read more

by Fr Kevin Jordan, Parish Priest St Mary Magdalen, Willesden Green Each week on the A-Team, Hannibal would say, 'I love it when a plan comes together.' Until recently, the diocese's directions to our church would bring you to firmly shu...Read more

In the second of a series of articles by Westminster priests who live and work outside the diocese, Mgr Paul McPartlan shares his experience of working for ecumenical dialogue.  The year 1984 was important for me in tw...Read more

This is the question that Jesus puts to his disciples, as we hear in the Gospel for Home Mission Sunday which this year is on 16th September. Really it is a question about faith. For those who have not been brought up in the Catholic faith, or hav...Read more

by Fr Mark Vickers With Adoremus imminent, there is a heightened anticipation among delegates preparing for Liverpool and among those who will hold the event in their prayers. Just occasionally, however, one hears the query: 'A Eucharistic Co...Read more

by Fr Peter Michael Scott   In his Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis reminds us that Jesus asked his disciples to pay attention to details: 'The little detail that wine was running out at a party. The little detail t...Read more

In this second of two articles in the 450th anniversary year of the English College, Douai, Fr Nicholas Schofield continues the story of the College through turbulent wars and the French Revolution until its return to English shores   The ...Read more

by Clive Phillips This year the annual multi-faith pilgrimage visited the East End of London, an area that has welcomed thousands of migrants and refugees of different faiths from France, Ireland, Russia, the Caribbean, Bangladesh and other par...Read more

by Roger Carr-Jones Like many others I will be participating in this great event at some distance (having no ticket!), but I, like the rest of our diocesan family, will remain close to all the participants, especially the Holy Father, Cardinal ...Read more

On Thursday 5th July students from across the diocese gathered for the Catholic Children's Society (CCS) annual Good Samaritan and Good Shepherd Masses at Westminster Cathedral. The Good Shepherd Mass for primary school pupils was celebrated by ...Read more

Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) hosted work experience student, Ciaran Bourke, from Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, London, at its head office in Eccleston Square for two weeks in July. Ciaran helped in various jobs including working on spreadsheet...Read more

'If one member suffers, all suffer together with it' (1 Cor 12:26). These words of Saint Paul forcefully echo in my heart as I acknowledge once more the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of cons...Read more

On Wednesday 15 Over 40,000 CAFOD supporters have been inspired by Pope Francis' message to welcome the stranger. In solidarity with people on the move, they have walked nearly 100,000 miles. Some of the shoes places outside the Cathedral wer...Read more

By Fr Sameer Advani LC Manager of the St Peter's XI Priests, deacons, and seminarians from Rome, representing the Vatican (St Peter's) Cricket Team, were in England on their 4 Founded in 2014 to promote inter-religious, ecumenical, an.....Read more