News Archive

by Bishop John Wilson Chair of the Diocesan Education Commission Education Sunday falls on 9th September this year and provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of Catholic schools and colleges across our diocese. Since becoming C...Read more

My story begins with a lady, called Mary, not the Mother of Jesus, but a sick and housebound parishioner called Mary Lee from my home parish of St Mary Magdalen's, Willesden Green in North-West London. As a youth group we went visiting on a Satu...Read more

In early September, the seminarians of Westminster diocese will gather together with the Cardinal and Bishop John Sherrington for the 'Westminster Gathering'. This annual event affords an opportunity for all our seminarians to meet together for…Read more

As media focus on the Kerala floods gradually fades, a charity in England and Wales is drawing attention to its continued efforts to rescue and restore lives in this latest climate catastrophe.   With 10,000 volunteers in England and Wales ...Read more

Press release received from Friends of the Holy Land, Warwickshire   'Friends of the Holy Land' will host a national day of Christian solidarity on Saturday 22nd September.FHL's achievements in their nine years of existence have been ...Read more

'What matters is not so much what we achieve as what's in our heart. Which is why the Lord calls us not simply to be shepherds but to be shepherds after his heart' were the words of encouragement spoken by Bishop Nicholas Hudson in his homil...Read more

'Christian witness means being a good neighbour'. This year's guest speaker at the annual garden party at Our Lady of Victories, Kensington, was Dr Harry Hagopian, international lawyer and ecumenical adviser on matters relating to the Holy L...Read more

The 30th annual diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes this year was held from 22nd to 27th July. The theme for the pilgrimage, 'Do whatever he tells you' was taken from John 2:5 when at the wedding feast at Cana, Mary commands the servants to do as J...Read more

Cardinal Vincent has written to clergy of the diocese in response to the letter from Pope Francis on the abuse of children in the Church.  In the letter, the Cardinal expresses sorrow and shame, saying:  'I am so sorry for the hurt that ...Read more

On Tuesday 21st August, Cardinal Vincent wrote to the Keralan/Malayalam Catholic community to express his 'solidarity in prayer' for the victims of the Keralan floods. In the letter addressed to Frs Johnson Alexander and Sebastian Joseph,  ...Read more

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