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Centenary Year
This year the Cardinal Hume Centre are celebrating Cardinal Basil Hume's Life and Legacy
This year the Cardinal Hume Centre are celebrating Cardinal Basil Hume's Life and Legacy
In the year that marks the centenary of the birth of Cardinal George Basil Hume, we give thanks for his life and his legacy.
A great humanitarian, he believed that we should welcome all those in need, and “work together to do what we can to address the needs which we find".
His legacy lives on in the Cardinal Hume Centre's work to support disadvantaged families and young people to escape homelessness and poverty.
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George Haliburton Hume was born on 2nd March 1923 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of a Protestant heart surgeon and a French Catholic mother, and was educated at Ampleforth College and Benet Hall, Oxford. He entered the novitiate of the Benedictine monastery in 1941.
Cardinal George Basil Hume was a tireless advocate for those living on the margins of society, and believed that ‘Each Person Matters’. Appalled by the visible rise in young homeless and families living in poverty, he dedicated his life to helping others. Thanks to his vison of a more caring society, thousands of vulnerable people have avoided homelessness or poverty. In this centenary year, Cardinal Hume’s legacy remains to give dignity and hope to those in need.
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"My memories of Cardinal Hume are vivid and enduring. I am not alone in this. Cardinal George Basil Hume touched the lives of many, many people in ways that are not forgotten. I recall his deep compassion and awareness of the needs of others. This depth of soul was expressed in consistent and effective initiatives for the poor"
- His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster
"When I rewrote my will recently, I was keen to help the Centre continue the excellent work they do in an area of Central London, that does have many social problems (that) the Centre has been able to address. I would like to think that by leaving a legacy to Cardinal Hume Centre they will be able to continue the excellent work they do"
- Paul Tobin, Legacy Pledger
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