On this Feast of St Barnabas, we have listened to the passage from the Acts of the Apostles telling us about his part in the birth of the early Church, along with Saul, shortly to become Paul. They are among the many figures that appear in this...
As a young priest, some time ago now, I gave a sermon about family life. Standing at the door of the church after Mass, many people kindly thanked me for my remarks. I remember one older lady, a grandmother, who did not do so. As she passed by, in...
'I must ask myself where I came from... the memory of my people, the memory of my family, the memory of my history. The memory of a path that has already been trodden'. Pope Francis spoke these words a few months ago in Krakow to the pilgrims ...
A few years ago now, as I was about to leave Birmingham to go back to Westminster, one good-natured and spirited priest said, in a voice loud enough for me to hear, that he was quite glad because now he would be hearing less about Bishop Ullathorn...
Westminster Cathedral is familiar with historic events. But on 19 It was the climax of a long Journey upon which the whole Diocese had embarked last autumn. To 'spend time with the future' [i]was how Pope Francis had described what we should...