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 […]
Society
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 […]
International Day Against Child Slavery
This comes one day late. Yesterday, April 16th, was the International Day Against Child Slavery. From the Solidaridad campaign: On April 16th 1995, Easter Sunday, Iqbal Masih was assassinated. In memory of Iqbal, symbol of […]
Pope Francis hosts trafficking conference organised by Church in England and Wales
Last Thursday the Vatican hosted an international conference on the scandal of human trafficking, deplored by Pope Francis as a “crime against humanity”. The two-day conference, organized by the Church in England and Wales and chaired by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, […]
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 […]
Choosing life after not choosing death
There is a good article on Albert Camus over at the First Things website. Camus famously said that the fundamental question of our age was suicide. He thought that to live honestly, one had to […]
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 […]
The Alliance of Pro-Life Students gathers momentum
The Alliance of Pro-Life Students (APS) hit the pro-life scene only a year and a half ago. On Saturday 8th February, this dynamic student body held its first AGM, following previous APS events such as a high-profile party […]
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 […]
From a London prayer group to the pro-life work of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference
It’s been a year since I started work as the Director of the Department of Promotion and Defence of Life in the Colombian Bishops’ Conference, an experience I never expected! I had a conversion experience […]
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 […]
Archbishop re-activates Ecclesiastical Faculties of Heythrop College
Archbishop Vincent Nichols celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving in the Maria Assumpta Chapel at Heythrop College on 20 January 2014 to mark the re-establishment of the ecclesiastical faculties of theology and philosophy, together known as the […]
