The motto of the BBC, which goes back to the Christian influence of its foundation, is “Nation shall speak peace unto nation”. The motto was changed in 1934 to just one word: “quaecumque”, meaning “whatsoever”. Rather than being a term of disrespect, it was based on St Paul’s letter to the Philippians 4:8: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoev

Imagine you’re the Lord. I know it’s a bit of a strange thing to say. The Gospel needs to be spread over the whole world. Would you have chosen Simon and Saul? And out of all the Twelve, would you have chosen Simon to be the one in charge? Would you have chosen Saul to go across the Roman Empire on various missionary journeys, or one of the other of the Twelve instead? If we look at all of the Twelve, and the future St Paul, they all have their faults and shortcomings. Perhap

I can remember some time ago seeing on-line a meme that someone had put together, using a scene from one of the Back to the Future films. “The Doc” has returned in his time machine and he is saying to Marty McFly: whatever you do, don’t go to 2020. For most of us, that year started just like any other, but by the time we got to March we began to see it would be unlike anything we had ever experienced before. A priest friend of mine, who was in a parish in Birmingham at the ti