Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali will be the prinicipal celebrant and homilist at Mass this Sunday (1/25). Prior to entering the full communion of the Catholic Church in 2021 through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Msgr Nazir-Ali was for 15 years the Church of England Bishop of Rochester.

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“My Journey to Full Communion with the See of Peter”

Msgr Michael Nazir-Ali, 13 January 2026

“…There have, of course, been questions as to whether I continue to hold certain central truths which have been dear to me in the past. Thus, on Holy Scripture, I can affirm with Dei Verbum and with St John Paul II that it is unique, immutable, and the supreme rule of faith, and that the entire practice of our faith should be ruled and nourished by Scripture (DV 21; Ut Unum Sint 79). I have seen, however, the havoc that can be caused by the private interpretation of Scripture, against which Scripture itself warns us (2 Pet 1:20). Of course, as Dei Verbum teaches, attention must be given to the historical and cultural background of the books of Scripture and to their literary forms. But when all is said and done, one part of Scripture is to be taken in the light of the whole, because although written by human beings, Scripture is also God breathed and divinely authored. The role of Scripture scholars and theologians is most important and helps the Church to come to an informed judgement about the meaning of Scripture in this or that situation. In the end, however, the teaching authority, in the light of tradition as well as scholarship, interprets and confirms what Scripture teaches (DV 12)…” KEEP READING