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‘A frontier is opening up for us’: Cardinal Nichols at 80

"The job of the Church [is] to say: where are we rooted? What is it that feeds the deepest sense of who we are and how we live together?"

Luke Coppen
Nov 08, 2025
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On Saturday, Nov. 8, Cardinal Vincent Nichols celebrates his 80th birthday, but he looks little different from how he did 16 years ago, when he became the Archbishop of Westminster, head of England’s most prominent diocese.

Apart, that is, from his black-rimmed glasses, which give him a veteran film director look.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols speaks at a post…

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