On Friday 7th June, Mgr Nizar Semaan, until recently the Chaplain of the Syriac Catholic community in London, was ordained and installed as Coadjutor Archbishop for the Diocese of Mosul in Iraq. On this occasion, Cardinal Vincent to the Archbishop...
I start to write this reflection on Diocesan Priesthood on the thirty sixth anniversary of my ordination. Many of the emotions and feelings of joy, excitement, reticence and anticipation of that day come flooding back to me like it was just yesterday.
Every year in June pilgrims from different parts of the country gather together in Walsingham for the annual Vocations Pilgrimage. This is a day of prayer, procession and adoration for men and women of all ages to join together in prayer before Our Lady of Walsingham in the intention of an increase in vocations to the priesthood, consecrated life and marriage.
For more than 200 years the huge three-sided gallows known as the 'Tyburn Tree' stood near the present-day Marble Arch. It was a notorious instrument of mass execution, upon which more than 1000 people met their deaths, including 105 beatified...
Over 150 years ago Cardinal Wiseman invited the Religious of the Assumption to establish a house of adoration in the Diocese of Westminster. Maria Assumpta Chapel in Kensington Square is the continuing legacy of Cardinal Wiseman's request; each ...