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On Saturday 10th March a group of staff, students and family members set off on seven mile walk from Our Lady's High School in Stamford Hill to Westminster Cathedral, to raise money for The Passage, a Catholic charity in Victoria working with ho...Read more

Twenty-four students from Nicholas Breakspear School in St Albans show their delight at being presented with a cheque for £100 each from the bursary fund of the Catenian Association, by Dennis Cooper, Vice President of Luton Circle prior to their...Read more

The Bishops of England and Wales have expressed their concern that gender ideology is creating confusion. In a statement issued following the April plenary, they said that the intense public debate about gender 'raises profound questions about h...Read more

Bishop Paul McAleenan, Chair of the Office for Migration Policy, has welcomed the UK government's apology for challenging the residency status of undocumented members of the Windrush generation - people who came to the UK from the West Indies in t...Read more

On Monday 16th April, at the start of the week of Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings, Cardinal Vincent sent a message to Her Majesty The Queen on behalf of the Bishops of England and Wales, offering prayers and good wishes. In the letter, t...Read more

If you had ever met my mother she would have hugged you, and in such a way that you would possibly have needed an appointment with an osteopath afterwards. Whenever my brother and I said goodbye to her, she would grab hold of us and prevent us fro...Read more

At the Mass of the Lord's Supper, commemorating the institution of the Eucharist, on Maundy Thursday, 29 March 2018, in Westminster Cathedral, Cardinal Vincent washed the feet of 12 Chelsea Pensioners, recalling the Lord's washing of his dis...Read more

On Friday 30 At 12 noon, Cardinal Nichols joined Christians of different denominations in the Walk of Witness which began at Methodist Central Hall. The procession, led by a man carrying a cross symbolising Christ's journey to Calvary, made i...Read more

At the Easter Vigil celebrated on 31   The story of God's unending love in, 'the goodness and beauty of creation, all that God 'found to be very good' ... begins... just as our story with our first coming into being in our mother's w...Read more

Easter Sunday begins the month of April this year. The Pope has invited us to witness to the Resurrection in several ways, including his Intention for this month: 'that economists may have the courage to reject any economy of exclusions and know...Read more

Oceania is a region made up of thousands of islands throughout the Central and South Pacific Ocean, including Australia and New Zealand. St Peter Chanel is the Protomartyr (first martyr) of Oceania. The story of his martyrdom converted the whol...Read more

Palm Sunday at Westminster Cathedral began with the reading of the Gospel narrative of the Lord's triumphal entry into Jerusalem and Cardinal Vincent blessing the palms in Cathedral Hall followed by a procession along Ambrosden Avenue and into the...Read more

'The Chrism Mass is my favourite moment in our year,' His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols told priests of the diocese at the Chrism Mass celebrated at Westminster Cathedral on 27 'I am always deeply touched by the support and love for the...Read more

by Fr Nicholas Schofield It is always fascinating looking at old census records. It is as if the past is frozen in time. The details of every man, woman and child living in the UK on a particular day were carefully recorded each decade. If they…Read more