Catholic Voices. I signed up for the Rise Up programme during the summer holidays not entirely sure what it would be like in its pilot year. The whole experience surpassed all my prior expectations. 'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the...
One of the ironies of life is that after a long wait for a bus, on a rainy night, not one comes along, but two! Well, cardinals, it seems, are a bit similar. In fact, there could easily have been three, but Cardinal Fitzgerald had a previous...
I think often about the people who are buried in this place. One has a sense of waiting with them for the resurrection of the dead. Cardinal Hume back there, Cardinal Heenan just here, Cardinal Cormac over there. I think most of us know Cardinal...
About a thousand people gathered in Westminster Cathedral to welcome Little Amal, the 3.5m puppet of a 10-year old unaccompanied Syrian refugee girl, on 25th October. Her journey across Europe, from the Turkey-Syria border to Manchester, is...
We have Cardinal Vincent to thank for this beautiful picture, as well as, of course, Alexander Talbot-Rice, its inspired creator. Alexander offered it to the Cardinal as a gift; and the Cardinal was clear it should reside here in this beautiful...