On the feast day of St Josephine Bakhita, Cardinal Vincent celebrated the Mass opening the Latin American regional conference of the Santa Marta Group in Buenos Aires. In his homily, he reminded those gathered in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buen...
The theme of Cardinal Vincent's homily was the mercy of God. He began by speaking about the consecration of the three oils in the Mass: the Oil of the Sick, the Oil of Catechumens and the Oil of Chrism:
'These oils are consecrated for the h...
The flight to Phnom Penh revealed the enormous flood plains of Cambodia. At times it seemed as though we had flown over the coast but we were well inland. The floods are important for the rich agriculture of the country but it is important that th...
Given at the Chapel of the Chelsea Pensioners on Remembrance Sunday 8 November 2015.
One hundred years ago, not today but at the beginning of May, John McCrae stood in the field of the second battle of Ypres, looking at the place where his fri...