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Mgr Walter Drumm died peacefully and quietly, on 17 August. Today we gather to commend his soul to our Heavenly Father, seeking gracious mercy for him, through the power of the death and resurrection of Jesus, which we celebrate in this funeral Ma...
Last Sunday I joined thousands of people in St Peter's Square waiting to receive the blessing of Pope Francis. I was surrounded by families: babies asleep in prams, young children crawling on the cobbles, older children entertaining each other, te...
Given at the Chapel of the Chelsea Pensioners on Remembrance Sunday 8 November 2015. One hundred years ago, not today but at the beginning of May, John McCrae stood in the field of the second battle of Ypres, looking at the place where his fri...
At the beginning of our ceremony this evening we used words which expressed our hope and prayer: ‘May the light of Christ rising in glory dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds.’ The darkness is real, this week shown most emphatically on ...
As a society we have an obsession with death. We have seen this so clearly in the ways in which Halloween has been marked in the last few days. We are filled with fascination, confusion and dread when it comes to matters of death and life after de...