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Pause For Thought
8th June 2017 Cardinal Cormac gave this Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 on the day of the General Election. I am now 40 years a bishop and the first 23 years were spent in the South of England where I lived in a house with a large garden. I use...
Condolence Message from Theresa May
From Downing Street, Prime Minister Theresa May writes: Like so many people, I was sorry to hear the news of the death of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. The Cardinal’s contribution to the nation as the tenth Archbishop of Westminster has, r...
Condolence Message from Syriac Orthodox Archbishop in the UK
From Athanasius Toma Dawod, Syriac Orthodox Archbishop in the United Kingdom: I have received with sadness the news about the passing away of the late Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor to the loving mercy of God. I have known the late Cardinal f...
Message from Fr Gian Matteo Serra OP: Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
Fr Gian Matteo Serra OP, Rector of the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva writes to Cardinal Vincent: It is with sincere emotion that I write to Your Eminence upon hearing that our beloved Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, whose Titular Basil...
Hope in Action
In his new book published in September, Cardinal Vincent explores the contribution of faith to society. The book is based on a series of talks and lectures he had given, mainly during the Year of Mercy. As he explains in the preface, the Cardinal...
Condolence Message: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis inscribes the book of condolences in Archbishop’s House: ‘With a great sense of humility I bring the condolences of the Jewish community on the sad passing of Cardinal Cormac – a man imbued with spirituality, warmt...
Condolence Message: Mary McAleese
Dear Cardinal Vincent, I send to you, his confreres and family my deepest condolences on the death of Cardinal Cormac. Cormac’s death evokes such a depth of sorrow at the absence of that hearty laugh, that face that exuded such a depth of huma...
Cardinal Cormac: A man devoted to prayer
by Sr Clement Doran When he was appointed Archbishop of Westminster in 2000 Cardinal Cormac (then Bishop of Arundel & Brighton, in which our Augustinian mother house is situated) asked our Mother General Sr Thomas if three sisters could join him ...
A True Servant of the Church
by Fr Kevin Dring I was Cardinal Cormac's last priest secretary in Arundel & Brighton, being with him in those heady days when he was appointed as the new Archbishop of Westminster. The time living and working with Cormac were some of the happies...
‘I don’t want to make any excuses’
by Fr Jeremy Trood It was entirely predictable that many of the obituaries of Cormac, Cardinal Murphy- O’Connor should concentrate on child abuse and his role in the scandal which engulfed the Church at the turn of the millennium. When he becam...