‘This sanctuary has been opened to be specifically devoted to the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament’. These are the words of Cardinal Manning, spoken 150 years ago today, on 20 October 1874, at the opening of this Church of Corpus Christi.…
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.…
Today we gather to give thanks to God for the blessings which have been bestowed upon the parish of Our Lady of Dolours since the first Mass was offered in the parish by the Passionist Blessed Dominic Barberi on 15 April 1849. We mark and…
At the end of the 6th century, Pope St Gregory the Great sent a team of missionaries to England. The pagan Anglo-Saxons, from the Germanic lands outside the Roman Empire, had steadily encroached on the island of Britain since the withdrawal of...
Written by Fr Hugh Mackenzie, Chaplain at Westminster Cathedral “Whoever seeks the truth is seeking God, whether consciously or unconsciously” One night in 1921, the 28-year-old Edith Stein stayed up all night reading a book that she had…