by Cardinal Vincent Nichols
What is your picture of holiness? In your eyes, what does a saint look like?
Pope Francis' recent Exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate ('Rejoice and be Glad') offers us his answers to these questions. He says that...
Dimitri got off to a flying start in the epee, steamrolling his way through a 6 victory win in the poule rounds. This gave him a bye through the first round, before he recorded a 15-4 victory over Joey Brinson of the USA. His next fight held a rea...
In the long, rather exhausting run up to the General Election, I was told of a researcher, in Essex, testing views and opinions. He had a hard time from the group he was interviewing. Everything he asked received a negative reaction. Eventually, s...
"We don't call them 'refugees' but 'relatives'."
That was the first thing we learnt on being welcomed to a camp in Erbil, northern Iraq.
"And we welcome them into 'centres' rather than 'camps' - so that they feel less like victims."
So ...
Born in West London and raised in a Catholic family, my faith was formed by my grandmother and encouraged by my father. Sadly my parents divorced in late 2002 and my grandmother died the year after. But my aunt recognised the seed that my grandmot...