Archbishop lectures Hexham pupils on violence
The Hexham and Newcastle Catholic Partnership, a project involving schools in the north-east, listened to a lecture given by Archbishop Desmond Tutu on May 13. The archbishop, who was delivering the...
View Article‘I sat with John Paul as Communism crumbled’
On the night before the Berlin Wall came down this year’s Templeton Prize winner, Tomáš Halík, visited Blessed John Paul II. He recalls that the pope turned away from the television, which was showing...
View ArticleI’m so glad I didn’t have to discuss the Assisted Dying Bill with my...
When my mum was diagnosed with late-stage cancer she turned to me and said: “We will get through it.” At the time, I did not know what that could possibly mean. Looking after my mum disrupted my normal...
View ArticlePope pipped to Nobel Peace Prize by Malala and anti-slavery activist
Pope Francis has been pipped to the the Nobel Peace Prize by Malala Yousafzay and the Indian human rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. The pair were awarded the prize “for their struggle against the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 18/12/14
Pope Francis will pray over a mass grave for victims of Typhoon Haiyan during his visit to the Philippines next month. Dalits in India have urged the Vatican to excommunicate Catholics who continue to...
View ArticleL’Arche founder Jean Vanier ‘was inspired by St Thérèse of Lisieux and Gandhi’
In 1964, when Jean Vanier quietly began what would become an international network, he had “no idea that this would be a revolutionary reality … that it would grow,” he remarked joyfully. The founder...
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