It’s already a full year since Pope Francis prayed for the whole world in that haunting and poignant televised service in a rainy, dark St Peter’s Square. For many of us watching, whether we were people of explicit faith or not, the simple…
The recently completed decorative scheme by Tom Phillips CBE RA (pictured below) in the Chapel of St George and the English Martyrs at Westminster Cathedral was dedicated by Cardinal Vincent on 28 October.
This event marks the end of a long pro...
Lord Alton of Liverpool has been awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary by the Hungarian Ambassador, Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, on behalf of Mr János Áder, President of Hungary.
The award is in recognition of the su...
Our ceremony today is quite unusual, for at least two reasons. First we are gathering under the restrictions of the pandemic. We are only too aware of them. We accept and exercise our responsibilities as conscientiously and deliberately as we…
Given at the Chapel of the Chelsea Pensioners on Remembrance Sunday 8 November 2015.
One hundred years ago, not today but at the beginning of May, John McCrae stood in the field of the second battle of Ypres, looking at the place where his fri...