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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 Â
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
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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'Â 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
The Carmelites have arranged that the relics of Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, and their youngest daughter, Saint Thérèse, will come from Lisieux to Ireland to coincide with the World Meeting of Families 2018.
The Relics will be at the WMOF2...Read more
On Friday 13
In his homily, Bishop Mark reflected, 'Sixty years a priest is indeed a milestone, and one for which I give grateful thanks to Almighty God,' for the 'opportunities...afforded to minister and serve his people.' He shared th...Read more
 An early start on 11
The following morning the monastic bells roused us from our sleep and we participated in Lauds with the monks. The mist rising from the mountains offered a majestic sight as we spent the morning exploring the surrounding ar...Read more
On 30
A person in a persistent vegetative state exists in an altered state of consciousness following some kind of trauma. The person breathes without assistance and follows patterns of sleeping and waking, although without any detectable exter...Read more
On Saturday 28
Taking the mosaic in the chapel at the College of St Philip Neri offering his blessing to the priests about to depart for the English Mission in the sixteenth century as the starting point for his homily, the Cardinal preached on...Read more