He had a keen sense of the newness of the Christian condition. It was motivated by the attraction of the Catholic faith, liturgy, and patrimony. It was also informed by awareness of what a world without Christ can look like. In 1929, when Fr Cyprian was newly ordained, working in Onitsha, a smallpox epidemic broke out in…
Diana Klein was also a regular visitor to St Joseph’s College and a cherished friend of many students. We met the White Fathers (a group of missionaries) in the late 1980’s when we became friends with several of the students and staff at St Edward’s in Totteridge. Over the next 10 years we travelled around…
It is with regret that we inform you of the death on the 11th day of January, 2022 in Herbert House, Liverpool, aged 87, of Father Julian Wild Mill Hill MIssionary May he rest in peace Julian Wild was born on the 3rd of April, 1934 in the small town of Easington in the Diocese…
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of SISTER NORBERT SOROHAN who died at Franciscan Convent, Burnley on 1st January 2022 Anna Mary Philomena Sorohan was born on 8th April 1931 in Ballinagh, County Cavan, Ireland, the eldest of twelve children to her parents John and Mary Sorohan. The first of her…
John Wijngaards has set himself a challenging task. He has lived a full and fascinating life. He tells his story with a luxury of detail. It is obvious he is telling it ‘like it is’, or was. For any Catholic who has lived the experience of post-Vatican II, his book is a significant contribution to…
“It’s not just Omicron, but a sense that history is not going anywhere. There’s a rise of violence, threats of war, the ecological catastrophe… Many young people say they don’t want to have children because they don’t want to bring them into a world that has no future. But we believe in God’s future”. “I…
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic we have come to know the meaning and the consequences of ‘social distance’. At best, we have been allowed to constitute a small group – a bubble – of family or those with whom we normally share our lives. If it is true that ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’ then…
Wijngaards was born to Dutch Catholic parents in Indonesia in 1935. He movingly recounts being interred at a POW camp in Indonesia for four years, beginning at age 6. Then he entered a seminary aged 11, was ordained a priest at age 23, and was studying in Rome when Vatican II was getting under way…
It is impossible for any government to draft assisted suicide laws which include legal protection from future extension and expansion of those laws. Canada has clearly demonstrated that safeguards can be eroded in a matter of just five years. The prohibition of killing is the safeguard. The current law is the protection for the vulnerable….
Friday 1 October was a special day for Missio England and Wales as our National Director, Father Anthony Chantry MHM, celebrated his Ruby Jubilee! A Mass took place in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Pimlico. Mass was concelebrated by Bishop Paul Swarbrick, our Chair of Trustees, and Fr Michael Corcoran, General Superior of the…
A great time was had at the Leeds Diocesan Mission Mass on Saturday 25th September. It was a great opportunity to thank and pray for Missio’s volunteer Local Secretaries and Red Box supporters across the Diocese of Leeds, and also to start to prepare for World Mission Sunday, which this year takes place on 24th…
We bid farewell to our confrere Fr. Joseph Holmes MHM (83), who died on the 30th day of September at Herbert House, Liverpool. Father Joseph Holmes Mill Hill Missionary May he rest in peace Joe, as we Mill Hillers affectionately knew him, was born on the 27th of July, 1938 in the town of Dumfries…
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