The creation of Britain’s first Syro-Malabar eparchy. The spread of Oratories inspired by the charism of St Philip Neri. The revival of failing parishes by priests of the Old Rite.
The foundation of a community of nuns who uphold the Magisterium by fighting abortion. The flourishing of a new school of evangelisation, bursting with energy but so steeped in tradition that it celebrates its feast day of the Annunciation with an eastwards-facing liturgy…
These signs of new life described by Stephen Bullivant in his article made me think, for some reason, of the National Pastoral Congress in Liverpool in 1980 – an official gathering of 2,000 delegates from all the dioceses of England and Wales.
