Cardinal makes New Year play for family values

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the spiritual leader of the Roman catholic Church in England and Wales, has used his New Year message to stress the importance of marriage and what are thought of as “traditional family values”. He claimed that most...

Cardinal calls for compassion not hostility towards migrants

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the senior figure in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has called for a more welcoming approach to migrants in British national life. During his Midnight Mass homily, delivered and broadcast on Christmas Eve...