By Deacon Roger Carr-Jones, Marriage and Family Life Coordinator Hope in the shadows is a contemporary phrase used in Ignatian Spirituality. Ignatius speaks of finding God in difficult times: in this month of the Holy Souls has themes of loss,…
This evening we have just heard a sobering passage from the Gospel of St Matthew. It reminds us, vividly, as we pray for our deceased brethren, that a firm judgement awaits us all, as it awaited them. This, I trust, adds a seriousness to our…
Caritas Westminster, reflects on Pope Leo XIV’s first Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi te, and on its relevance for charitable work in our diocese. There are many reasons why men and women of goodwill prefer these days to avoid talking about…
In October 1584, almost 1,000 years after St Augustine had founded the See of Canterbury (597), the Catholic Hierarchy of England and Wales came to an end with the death of Thomas Watson, former Bishop of Lincoln. Governance of the clandestine…
The Archdiocese of Westminster was officially established by Blessed Pius IX on 29 September 1850. Although revolutions had rocked Europe, Catholicism was experiencing an international revival and English Catholics, released from the legal…