On Thursday 27 February, Pope Benedict met with priests of the Rome diocese and engaged in a Pope's Question and Answer session in the Vatican’s Hall of Blessings. One of the priests asked about work with young people. (In this quotation from the Holy Father's reply, bear in mind that in Italy, yo...

John Pridmore came to Blackfen this evening and spoke powerfully about his conversion from a life in which he had everything in worldly terms but was empty spiritually, to a life in which he found the love and forgiveness of our Blessed Lord. Here is a short video of John giving an outline of his st...

Dominican Father Augustine DiNoia, undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith gave an address in December which was reported by the Catholic News Service. I have just picked it up from Fr Michael Brown's excellent blog Forest Murmurs. In a strikingly relevant comment, Father ob...

Anna Arco has been working hard on a new blog and general information centre for news about the forthcoming World Youth Day in Sydney. It's good to see news there of groups going with Fr Dominic Allain, Fr Dominic Howarth, Fr Daniel Seward and Fr Alexander Sherbrooke. We have a few people going from...

As I sit here tonight writing this post, I am a jumble of emotions. I have just finished watching the last episode of BBC1's 5 night series Criminal Justice that has been running all this week. The Independant and the Guardian have published mixed reviews on it, mainly around the accuracy of the beh...

Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images I haven't been able to watch much of the Holy Father's visit to the USA and have promised myself some time to catch up with the various video clips that are around. A convenient site for these is the US Bishops Conference Papal Visit Site which has a collection of...

well, we returned from the North on Friday afternoon, having had a lovely time of catch up and chill out with friends and family. It's very tiring doing all the travelling and it was a welcome return to our own beds. We reckon we did about 600 miles last week, travelling from Maldon to Sheffield to ...

...in fact, quite a lot! Let me list the excitements for you! 1. my lovely and dear friend  Jo Whatton has just got engaged to Jonathan Payne...wedding is in May!! Blimey, Christians eh! 2. 64 people are currently signed up for the Equipping Course for youth leaders in this Diocese - we prayed ...