Cardinal Vincent Nichols Archives

Cardinal Vincent Nichols

Westminster Cathedral forced to turn people away due to unprecedented numbers attending Easter Triduum

April 02, 2024

Staff at Westminster Cathedral were compelled to turn away people hoping to attend Mass due to reaching full capacity over the Easter weekend. Westminster Cathedral, which is the mother church of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and has a capacity of 3,000 people, was unable to let any more people in for its

Cardinal Nichols ‘heartbroken’ over attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church that he knows personally

December 18, 2023

LEICESTER, Crux – Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of the UK’s Roman Catholics, says he is “heartbroken” over the attack on a Catholic compound in Gaza by the Israeli military that left two women dead. On 16 December, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, announced that an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) sniper killed

A Christmas message from Cardinal Nichols

December 24, 2022

As I look back on the year that is now drawing to a close, one moment stands out, full of impact and resonance. On 8 September, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died. On that day, we mourned the loss of a unique and gracious mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. We cherished her life of unstinting service,

A Garland for the Queen

October 03, 2022

John Studzinski presents the Genesis Foundation’s latest endeavour

Vatican liturgy chief: Traditional Latin Mass ‘abrogated by Pope St. Paul VI’

November 09, 2021

The Vatican’s liturgy chief has said that the Traditional Latin Mass was “abrogated by Pope Saint Paul VI.” Archbishop Arthur Roche made the comment in a letter dated Aug. 4 to the English Cardinal Vincent Nichols. The prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments was replying to a letter

Dr Michael Nazir-Ali is ordained as a Catholic priest by Cardinal Nichols

October 31, 2021

The ordination of Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester, as a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham took place on Saturday 30th October at the Church of the Assumption, Warwick Street. He had been ordained a Catholic deacon two days before at the Chapel of Oscott, where St John

IICSA victim-witness plans to sue Archdiocese of Westminster

April 12, 2021

The Times reported Sunday that the victim has sent a letter threatening suit against the Archdiocese of Westminster, for personal injury. She says she was “re-traumatised” by Church safeguarding staff after she reported her abuse.

‘Let us set ourselves to know the Lord.’

April 03, 2021

"Having celebrated so many ceremonies in an empty Westminster Cathedral, often with heart heavy at the strangeness of it all," writes Cardinal Vincent Nichols in his Easter reflection for Catholic Herald readers, "I so look forward to those gatherings of the Church which affirm and give life to us all."