Donovan couldn't have been more surprised if he'd said he was entering a monastery and his mail should be forwarded via Cardinal Hume.

He presided over the burial of Cardinal Hume in 1999.

Cardinal Hume is 70 years old, but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth.

Cardinal Hume's call for a Royal Commission to find 'where we are at' is timely.

In 1976 Cardinal Hume appointed the then Father Crowley as his private secretary.

Cardinal Hume once put it to him that, if there was no God, life would be absurd.

Rome agreed with Cardinal Hume's assessment that there was uncertainty in some cases.

The college was opened and initiated by Cardinal Hume.

Cardinal Hume's time in office saw Catholicism become more accepted in Britain than it had been for 400 years.

'We felt as if our hands were being guided as we wrote his name on the paper,' Cardinal Hume later remarked.