It wasn't quite the usual Monday morning feeling for the pilgrims. After breakfast, many pilgrims took the last opportunity to visit the Church of the Nativity if they had not already done so, to see the spot where tradition says that Jesus was born.
On the journey towards Easter, we have reached the Second Sunday in Lent. In a month’s time we shall move into Holy Week and during the Maundy Thursday Mass, as he does each year, the Cardinal will wash the feet of twelve Chelsea Pensioners –…
I don’t remember when I first heard of St Thomas Aquinas. But I do remember roughly when he became important to me. I was aged eighteen or nineteen, studying philosophy and theology at university, and feeling rather at sea. There were a lot of…
On 18 This legislation, contained in section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023, criminalises a range of activities within a 150-metre perimeter of an abortion facility. Such activities potentially include prayer, thought, peaceful presence,…
The Dicastery for Evangelisation has appointed Father Tom Thomas as Apostolic Administrator of the Prefecture of the Falkland Islands. Father Thomas, a priest of the Rosminian order serving as Rector and Parish Priest of St Etheldreda's in…