Every day I leave the busy and built up streets of Hackney and I walk through the bright and welcoming entrance of St Joseph's Hospice. As some of the older East End people say 'I have crossed the threshold'.
When I walk through the door…
"To get us all to heaven." That surely is the goal which unites every Parish Priest from Fr Andrew backwards. I like, on this day, to imagine all of them, not only the priests but the tens or hundreds of thousands of parishioners who...
Just before the start of Lent, Cardinal Vincent launched his annual Lenten Appeal, which this year focuses on the problem of food poverty and food insecurity. At the same time, he announced the launch of a new food relief initiative across the…
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor was born on 24 August 1932 in Reading, Berkshire, the fifth son of Dr George Murphy-O'Connor and his wife, Ellen.
His brothers Brian and Patrick were priests of the...