Archbishop: ‘Godless reason will not bring peace’

ARCHBISHOP Vincent Nichols of Birmingham attacked godless rationalism during his sermon at the Chapter Mass held at the Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica of St Chad on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Monday December 8, writes Peter Jennings. During a challenging and thought-pro voking sermon, Archbishop Nichols said: “When preaching about the Immaculate Conception, Bishop William Ullathorne OSB (the first Bishop of Birmingham from June 1846 until he resigned in February 1888) was always at pains to point out how much it showed up the folly of the age.”