Contact your MP now! Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Bishops' Conference and Archbishop of Westminster, has issued a pastoral letter on assisted suicide that will be read in the churches of his diocese on the weekend of 12-13 October.…
Dear Friends, sometimes we can find the heart and the words with which to pray, but there are other times when, in the words of the Book of Lamentation, and echoing Isaiah’s cry for justice tempered with mercy all we can do is put our mouths to…
Jerome would not, it must be said, be everyone’s ideal partner for a walking tour. He was fiercely quarrelsome, and battled with many of his contemporaries, sometimes using language that would make you blush. He seems to have lived a fairly…
The Eucharist (from the Greek eucharistia, "thanksgiving") is the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, in which He is present under the forms of bread and wine, offering Himself in the Sacrifice of the Mass and giving Himself as...
This morning each of us has followed the path down to this Grotto. We have done this responding to the request presented by Our Blessed Lady that we come in procession to this sacred place. Here we stand with Bernadette, before Mary, imploring…