News Archive
On the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, 3
Cardinal Vincent said: 'It is my privilege to be here today to declare this newly and beautifully renovated church to be our Diocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament.
'In doing so I pray that so many...Read more
by Fr David Stewart SJ
Pope Francis is renowned for breaking new ground, in so many ways. He encourages all of us to 'go to the frontiers'. He goes there too; in his preaching and teaching, in his travelling, remarkable for an octogenarian,...Read more
St Romuald was born at Ravenna, Italy in 951 AD. Born to an aristocratic family, Romuald grew up with riches and was known to have a wild youth. Devotion to prayer or the call to holy Life was never taught or spoken of within the family setting. U...Read more
Cardinal Vincent has spoken in support of the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin following the Irish referendum. In a statement released 29
'Today I offer my prayerful support to the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin, Eamon Martin and Diarmuid Marti...Read more
If you turn on your computer, you can't avoid reading about computers. Today, technology dominates the news and almost every aspect of our lives, and all sorts of organisations, from banks and telecoms providers to social media sites, have to ex...Read more
On 29th April Cardinal Vincent travelled to Poland as Papal Legate at the celebrations of the 600th Anniversary of the Primacy of Poland. The Cardinal was in the city of Gniezno, whose Archbishops were first recognised as Primates in 1418, and hav...Read more
An exquisite bouquet of flowers, designed by Philippa Craddock, used to decorate St George's Chapel for the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, has been donated to the patients of St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney, the day after the we...Read more
by Bishop Nicholas Hudson
It felt fitting and timely indeed to bring to the Houses of Parliament 'Fifty Faces of the Holy Land', the photographic and audio exhibition held in May sponsored by the Holy Land Coordination to bring to prominenc...Read more
St Mary's University, Twickenham has announced plans to launch a new Centre for Research into the Education of Marginalised Children and Young Adults.
The centre will focus on the education of children and young adults not served by existing ed...Read more
London's migrant community came to St George's Cathedral, Southwark, on the May Bank Holiday for the 13th annual Mass for Migrants in honour of St Joseph the Worker.
The Mass is a joint celebration between the three Catholic dioceses in London,...Read more
On 29th April around the coast of England and Wales, Catholics gathered for the Rosary on the Coast, to pray for 'life, faith and peace in the British Isles'. In our own diocese, not only did groups travel to the coast to join, but there were ...Read more
by Fr Andrew Cameron-Mowat
Bishop Nicholas Hudson celebrated Mass on 16th May and blessed the newly restored Stations of the Cross at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street. Many of the donors who funded the project as well as t...Read more
by Fr Ulick Loring
On Monday 9th April two new stained glass windows were dedicated in St James Church, Twickenham. One remembers the Portuguese dead of the First World War. becoming the first formal recognition in this country of the Portuguese ...Read more
by Fr Gladstone Liddle
On Sunday, 6th May Cardinal Vincent celebrated Mass at
St Mary Magdalen Church, Whetstone to mark the 60th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the present church by Cardinal William Godfrey in 1958.
The pa...Read more
An iconic photographic print of David Bowie anonymously donated to the Cardinal Hume Centre's charity shop in Westminster has fetched £1,000 at auction, making it one of the highest value single items ever sold in the shop's 31-year history. ...Read more
by Paola Greco
The annual Thanksgiving Service, following the end of another season at the Winter Shelter Project Hounslow, was held at Our Lady of Grace Parish Centre, Chiswick on Tuesday 22nd May.
The service was attended by a great number o...Read more