LONDON — Archbishop Richard Moth says the Church is currently in a “sweet spot,” with many people thirsting for the Gospel, and so she must “step into that space” where people are searching “in a new way, with a new confidence.”
Speaking to the Register Sept. 7 in his first wide-ranging conversation since his installation in February, the archbishop of Westminster shared his thoughts on signs of a “quiet revival” of the faith across the world, a growing migration crisis in the U.K. and its impact on the culture, and his views on new attempts to pass assisted-suicide legislation in the country.
Archbishop Moth, who heads the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, also discussed his approach to Traditionis Custodes, persecuted Christians, Britain’s first prime minister to be born and raised Catholic, and whether the bishops of England and Wales need to speak up more and with greater clarity in defense of the Church’s moral teaching.
Your Excellency, at your installation Mass in February, you called on the faithful to fan into flame the gift of God and courageously live out the gifts of the Holy Spirit in a world currently crying out for hope. What do you
