By Bethany Deadman Walking up to the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica, carrying a heavy wooden cross, surrounded by chanting devoted Nuns on my 32nd Birthday, felt like a surreal dream. I still reflect on that day and think ‘did that actually happen?’ But it did! When the Catholic Jubilee year was announced at…
Author: Fr Michael Campion
he stumbling BBC must learn from its mistakes
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a national asset that needs protecting and defending, not discrediting and dismantling, which is what its enemies, mostly in bad faith, are trying to do. In a bruised and bleeding world teeming with liars, it is a light shining in the darkness – despite the best efforts of those who…
Parish Trip to Lille October 2025
by Annie Fuller On Monday 13th October a group of 29 Holy Name parishioners and friends met up outside St Pancras Station in London, the start of an excellent 5 day holiday in Lille, France. Lille is in northern France, 126 miles north east of Paris and only 9 miles from the Belgian border. It…
‘God’s Grandeur’ shines in our care for creation
By Helen Mueting, National Catholic Reporter, 30 September As the Season of Creation draws to a close, I find myself pausing to notice the ways it invites us to renew our love and care for the world around us. At Mount St. Scholastica, we Benedictines mark this time in many small but meaningful ways. We…
Diary of a Rollator
written and submitted by an octogenarian parishioner Summer has vanished and I’m bracing myself for Autumn with its colourful but slippery leaves and mud. Today there was also the added burden of my Boss’s determination to get out on her daily walk, despite the torrential rain. So, I am proud to say that I managed…
Please don’t jump,’ Lord Moore tells peers in assisted suicide debate
Opponents of assisted suicide legislation hailed it as a “significant win” when the House of Lords approved the establishment of a select committee to scrutinise further the proposals in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at its second reading. The Bill’s formal committee stage will not now take place until the the select committee has…
Statement from Archbishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life IssuesOn the consideration of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the House of Lords
As the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is being considered at length in the House of Lords, we reiterate our firm opposition to the bill in principle and in practice. Despite being described by proponents as the safest of its kind, the bill remains unworkable. It puts the safety of our healthcare institutions,…
Why the government should back down on Palestine Action
The laws against terrorism in the United Kingdom are understandably ferocious, given the gravity of the crimes involved This raises serious questions about the use of such laws against the organisation Palestine Action, which has been proscribed on the grounds that it promotes or encourages terrorism. This seems disproportionate and is therefore unwise. It risks…
The Catholic influencers spreading the word of God
by Margaret Mitchell in The Spectator, 7 August 2025 In an auditorium just outside St Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, sat solemnly in the front row as a young crowd sang, danced and hopped around to a pop hymn. The cardinal, who is 70, was widely expected to become the…
Life in Bottom Gear
The slow delights of an OAP coach tour Roger Lewis in The Spectator 12 July 2025 Early on Monday mornings, in service stations across the country, armies of the elderly are mustering. These are the OAPs about to embark on motor coach tours to the Norfolk Broads, Cornish fishing villages, the Yorkshire Moors and Welsh…
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