The Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land arrived home early on Wednesday morning. It was a marvellous experience, one during which I was given so much encouragement and renewal. That has prompted me to write this simple Advent letter. On the...
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...
Bernadette knew what it was like to be accompanied by great crowds too. Indeed it was the crowds she was attracting to herself that made her decide she must leave Lourdes. She had begun to be followed wherever she went. On one occasion, she heard...
Today we celebrate the start of the adventure of the Church. It is our birthday, the day we remember how frightened apostles became bold, how the message of our healing and wholeness began to be offered to a needy world. Today, as St Paul tells...
There are so many different way of praying! Doesn't the Catechism of the Catholic Church say there are as many different ways of praying as there are people who pray?! Dear Sean and Francisco, by this stage of your formation, you will have...