On the Feast of the Translation of St Thomas Becket, on 7 July, I was in Canterbury to join the pilgrims attending the celebration Mass in the Cathedral, with the Papal Nuncio.
It was profoundly moving on many levels at once. Nearly 800 Catholics streamed into the Quire—more than had gathered there since the sixteenth century.
It was the first time a Papal Nuncio had celebrated Mass since 1520. It was also the first time I had entered the Cathedral and witnessed it celebrate the Catholic liturgy it had been built and conceived to host.
