A NEW biography, of the late Cardinal Basil Hume, will contain controversial behind-the-scenes details of his campaign to have the convictions of the Guildford Four, and the Birmingham Six, overturned ...

Cardinal Basil Hume, 76, leader of the Roman Catholic Church of England and Wales and one of the most admired public figures in Britain, died Thursday in London. "He was goodness personified, a true ...

This slim volume of reflections from the Benedictine monk who led the Catholic Church in England and Wales for 23 years was first published privately in 1976. Its publication now, three years after ...

In the English Catholic church, cardinal archbishops of Westminster tend to punch above their weight. One of those who punched hardest was Basil Hume. It was to this Benedictine monk that the nation ...

The appointment of Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, a former protégé of Cardinal Basil Hume, to the see of Westminster had long been expected, but for a time back in March seemed suddenly ...

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Twenty-five years ago, the bishops of England and Wales invited a journalist to draft a statement on politics and economics that was to provoke fury among Conservative politicians and commentators - ...