It’s good always, on Ash Wednesday, to remind ourselves that Lent means ‘lengthening’. And, of course, it’s true: no sooner does Lent start than we begin to notice the days lengthening; we realise the spring equinox is approaching, or, r...
'We had no plans whatsoever for future, no thought of how we were going to continue, no idea where we were going to get the help from when we started to reach out to those in need in the parish.' Cardinal's Lenten Appeal raises funds to support…
The Religious Congregation of the Sisters of Charity who founded St Joseph's Hospice in Hackney marked the bicentenary of the foundation of their order by the Venerable Mary Aikenhead with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Vincent at the hospice on 10...
This year, Bishop John Sherrington visited Zimbabwe with CAFOD and the impressions made by the visit form his reflection this Advent. The Catholic community gathering in the parish of All Souls, Binga in Zimbabwe is very much in my mind this Chris...
by Fergal Martin, CTS General Secretary
I’m staring at the photograph of a rather stiff-looking Victorian clergyman, tall and handsome. He has intelligent, tired eyes, yet there is determination in them, too. He was someone who longed to be a m...