We announce the sad news of the death on 20 Condolences are extended to Fr Des's family, friends, colleagues and parishioners of the parishes where he served since his ordination on 21 Information about funeral arrangements will be circulated, as...
The Feast of the Epiphany can easily be eclipsed. Decorations have been taken down or look tawdry. Schools have reopened. People are busy about daily life. Into these ordinary patterns of life breaks the extraordinary hope of this feast. On this...
In this striking image of the meeting of Blind Bartimaeus with Jesus, the Bulgarian artist Julia Stankova provides a sense of expectation and empathy between the two. The able-sighted crowd are the distracted ones. Jesus is the one who listens,...
David Anthony Andrew Amess was born in and grew up in the East End of London. The son of an electrician and a seamstress, David absorbed a stringent work ethic from his earliest years but his passion was always politics and he studied economics...
On Tuesday 23rd November, Cardinal Vincent Nichols celebrated the Funeral Mass of Sir David Amess MP, who was tragically killed at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in October. Joining the Amess family to remember Sir David were his...