Youth motivated by prayerful and faith-filled energy

The real point of pilgrimage

The understanding of ‘a personal God’ is at heart of our religion

I’m writing this week’s Notebook in Birmingham; I’m at St Mary’s seminary at Oscott where the Invocation discernment festival is coming to an end. The annual festival gathers young men and women from all over England and Wales for a weekend of prayer, reflection, workshops and talks on the theme of discernment of vocation. It’s…

Students are well able for more substantial content

A faith community should be one of friendship and support

Promoting vocations is a challenge to be faced

One weekend in 1979 had a profound and lasting effect

I’m writing this week from St Peter’s Square. It’s Sunday evening and the piazza is calmer now after the immense crowds of this morning’s canonisations. People are wandering around, pausing to photograph the giant portraits of the Church’s new saints hanging from the Basilica. Others are sitting on the steps under the colonnade gazing at…