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Given at the Mass for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, 14 These last three months have been a very testing time. Whatever words we use: 'lock down', 'social distancing', 'self-isolation', they all point to pressure on our…
It's already a full year since Pope Francis prayed for the whole world in that haunting and poignant televised service in a rainy, dark St Peter's Square. For many of us watching, whether we were people of explicit faith or not, the simple...
In his homily for the First Sunday of Lent, Cardinal Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, has preached about the need for peace in the country and hope for the future, in which he calls for a 'fasting from anger': 'The contemporary events...
'Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen...' You will recognise the carol, no doubt, which tells a story about another saint, Wenceslas, but have you ever wondered why we celebrate Stephen on day after Christmas? Why, no...
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor was born on 24 August 1932 in Reading, Berkshire, the fifth son of Dr George Murphy-O'Connor and his wife, Ellen. His brothers Brian and Patrick were priests of the...