'As President of Pact, the national Catholic charity for people in prison and their families, I invite you to join with me in supporting this year’s Prisoners’ Sunday, on 13th October. Pact supports people throughout England and Wales,…
St Francis knew the mercy of God and day by day began to see more clearly the mystery of God who is active in his creation. St Bonaventure writes, ‘In these latter days the grace of God our Savior has appeared in his servant Francis to all who…
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…
Wenceslaus, Vaclav, in Czech, is one of my names. As my mother had two brothers, Vladimir and Jan, and the priest who christened me (executed by the Nazis in Auschwitz) was Antonin Dohalsky and to underline that though under German control since…
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…