News Archive
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
by Fr Alan Robinson
Corpus Christi, the hidden gem in the very heart of Covent Garden, has stood here for over 140 years. To those who have visited: a dark, dusty building, much in need of some love and care, the blackened painted walls more re...Read more
by Fr Nicholas Schofield
I recently attended a memorial service at the London church of St Giles-in-the-Fields, just off Charing Cross Road and Shaftesbury Avenue. It was, I thought, an appropriate location for such an event, for the deceased g...Read more
by Fr Ivano Millico
'Marriage is the most beautiful thing God has created.' Pope Francis pronounced these words on 1st October 2016 while on an official visit to Georgia. Virtually the whole Catholic population, less than one per cent, had ga...Read more
by Fr Peter-Michael Scott
After 27 years of priesthood, I have come to realise that nowhere is perfect, not even the hospice. Often enough stresses and strains occur between staff, and as chaplain I sometimes find myself being privileged to hear ...Read more