Is it right to fear God? What is the difference between a destructive fear and a “holy trepidation”? An Advent homily by Fr Stephen Wang: Look around you at the chapel walls. Look at the […]
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Ecclesiam Suam and its Legacy
Venue: St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London Date: Monday 16th – Wednesday 18th June 2014 FULL DETAILS HERE In Collaboration with Leeds Trinity University and Newman University, Birmingham Pope Paul VI’s debut encyclical Ecclesiam Suam affirmed that ‘The Church […]
HTB Leadership Conference 2014
I can’t let this week go without writing about the HTB leadership conference… Now, nearly a week later, it’s like trying to grip onto the wonderful gifts of God we received, and not to forget […]
UK vocations upturn
Nearly 100 men and women entered convents, seminaries and religious houses across England and Wales in 2013. These entry figures include 44 men to seminary, 22 men to religious life and 30 women to religious […]
Spirit in the City, Preparation Event: Saturday 10th May
Saturday 10th May 2014: Get Set for Mission! This weekend! Join us for an inspiring afternoon ahead of the festival events and mission in the West End of London. Including: * Talk: How to share the […]
Spirit in the City: can you help out at London’s largest Catholic festival?
Spirit in the City is a festival that gathers people of all cultures for a joyful and dynamic Catholic celebration of faith in the West End of London. The dates this year are 11 to […]
Welcoming the Gift, Acknowledging the Giver: Theologies of Gratitude. A Day Conference at Blackfriars, Oxford, Saturday 17th May
The philosophy, psychology and theology of gratitude do not seem to have received much attention, and Blackfriars’ Aquinas Institute is pleased to host a conference on Theologies of Gratitude jointly with the Jubilee Centre for […]
The secret of what makes the two popes saints
Speaking this week at a Vatican press briefing entitled ‘Why Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are saints’, Fr Giovangiuseppe Califano, the current postulator for John XXIII’s canonisation – the fourth since 1966 – said that […]
Pope Francis appoints a new bishop for Brentwood Diocese
Pope Francis has appointed Father Alan Williams SM, currently the Director of the National Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham, as the seventh Bishop of Brentwood. His episcopal ordination will take place at Brentwood Cathedral […]
New Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Westminster
Pope Francis has appointed as the new Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, Mgr Nicholas Hudson, until now Parish Priest of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon. Mgr Nicholas Hudson’s episcopal ordination will take place at Westminster Cathedral at […]
Catholic Voices National Speakers’ Training, London, Sept-Dec 2014
Applications are now open for the Fifth National Speakers Training, which is taking place in London between September and December 2014. Catholic Voices, originally created for the 2010 papal visit to the UK, is now […]
Pope Francis anniversary interview: highlights
Francis’s 5 March interview with Corriere della Sera — published simultaneously by La Nación in Argentina — contains fewer surprises than we have been used to in his previous ones, and has therefore attracted less attention than […]
Thinking Faith: a study week and holiday for Catholics in their 20s-40s on the theme of Catholic Social Teaching
What is Thinking Faith? It began in 2005. It is led by a group of Catholic friends, Augustinian and Dominican, religious and lay, with a wide range of personal and professional interests and experience. Our aim is […]
The School of the Annunciation: a new centre for the New Evangelisation based at Buckfast Abbey
A Centre of Formation for the New Evangelisation has been established by leading experts in Catholic education. Dr Petroc Willey, Dr Andrew Beards, Dr Caroline Farey and others, have established this centre, called the School […]
The Wellspring Community is seeking new members for its Formation and Mission house from this coming summer
Seeking a gap year experience? Interested in living with other young Catholics in community? Wanting to grow in your faith? Keen to discover and deepen prayer? Seeking opportunities for service and mission? The Wellspring Community […]
Brentwood Cathedral Lenten Lectures 2014
Continuing the highly successful series of Lenten Lectures instituted in 2011, the theme this year will be The Cost of Discipleship – Four reflections on the nature, joys and challenges of Christian discipleship Wednesday 12 March Paying a Price […]
In biggest reform yet, Pope Francis names Cardinal Pell to new ‘Economy Secretariat’
Pope Francis has announced the biggest shake-up in Vatican administration for years by creating a new Secretariat for the Economy which will have oversight of all economic and administrative activities within the Holy See and the […]
Archbishop Vincent Nichols becomes a cardinal
In his first ordinary public Consistory, Pope Francis elevated 19 of the Church’s prelates to the rank of Cardinal – including Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. At […]
Pope Francis’s motorbike
Writer Audrey Gillan has written a topical short drama, which was speedily produced by BBC Radio 4, about the auction of Pope Francis’s Harley Davidson motorcycle earlier this week. It’s a charming story about family […]
New bishop of Plymouth
In his homily at the Episcopal Ordination of Mgr Mark O’Toole in Plymouth yesterday, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor spoke of his confidence that the priests and people of the Diocese of Plymouth were “receiving a bishop […]
Soldier to Saint: RISE Theatre’s inspirational play about St Alban is touring again this spring
Soldier to Saint is an explosive, original one-act play by RISE Theatre packing a powerful punch and bringing to life the inspirational story of Saint Alban, Britain’s first Christian martyr. Be immersed into the gritty […]
