In this week's episode I tackle the thorny issue of immigration from a Catholic perspective drawing on scripture, the catechism and various papal encyclicals and try to arrive at a balanced conclusion! 

In this week's episode I give a short tribute to Ronald Crane, one of the ordinariate's great characters, and I also ponder what the papacy of Leo XIV might mean for the universal church. 

In this week's episode I reflect on the death of Pope Francis, pondering the strengths and weaknesses of his pontificate. I also look ahead to the coming conclave and give my opinions of some of the oft touted candidates...

In this week's episode I share the penultimate Pembury lecture of the current series given last week by Fr Marcus Holden. 

In this week's episode I look at the life of the great artist, Rembrandt, and ponder if his own fall from grace inspired his fantastic painting of The Prodigal Son? It would be worth having a copy of the painting in front of you - g...

In this week's episode I talk to Richard Gamble, a free church Evangelical, who is behind a wonderful project to build an enormous monument in England dedicated to the Christian faith and the truth of answered prayer. What he has achieved is in...

In this week's episode I share the latest Pembury lecture, entitled 'Tolkien's Catholic Faith; in fact and fiction' which was delivered by Revd Dr Michael Ward, a priest of the Ordinariate and a fellow of the university of Oxford, who is a lead...

In this week's episode I ponder what the rise of Islam in formerly Christian countries might mean for our future and our faith? 

In this week's episode, recorded on Ash Wednesday, I ponder the need for all of us to enter Lent joyfully and using it as a genuine means to deepen our relationship with Christ. 

In this week's episode I share the latest Pembury lecture in which Fr Simon Heans shares his belief that the theory of evolution can and should be questioned by Christians. I also share my own thoughts on the subject which are a little differen...

In this week's episode I reflect on the ancient season of pre-Lent which was suppressed at the Second Vatican council but which was re-introduced to the Latin Rite of the Church as part of the liturgical life of the Ordinariate. 

In this week's episode I try and drill into what is really causing decline in the Church and deep division within the body of Christ. The answer reveals what faithful Catholics need to pray for ahead of a future conclave...

In this week's episode I share my thoughts on the dangers of politicising the Christian faith, a modern epidemic since the dawn of social media, and I also share the excellent lecture that was given by Dr Stephen Bullivant recently as part of t...

In this week's episode I share a conversation I had with Dr Stephen Bullivant following the excellent lecture he delivered last week in our parish. 

In this week's episode I share with you the highlights of my recent conference in Rome with the International Confraternity of Catholic Clergy. Our key speakers being Cardinals Muller, Sarah and Burke. 

In this week's episode I reflect on the awful crisis of the grooming gang scandal that again hit our newspapers this week and which caused such devastation to so many young children. I ask what questions need to be addressed in order for the ri...

In this week's episode I share the latest Pembury lecture which was delivered by Abbot Hugh Allen and very well received here in the parish. His theme was 'Staade zeit- the silent time: the real Advent season'

In this week's episode I ponder the need for lamentation in Advent and ask what we are going to do about the mess in the world, in our lives and in the institutional church this coming year? 

In this week's episode I reflect on my experience having served as a prison chaplain and on the issues and questions that this experience threw up. 

In this week's episode I ponder how the old labels of left and right are increasingly becoming meaningless in national debates. I also share the wonderful and uplifting talk delivered by Dr Caroline Farey in the parish last week on 'the pedagog...

In this week's episode I share the first talk delivered to the Ordinariate clergy at our recent plenary in Walsingham. Stefan Kaminski delivered the address entitled "Philosophical and social underpinning of current views of gender and human se...

In this week's episode I sit down in the Black Lion public house in Walsingham with Mgr. John Broadhurst the former Anglican Bishop of Fulham. 

In this week's episode I share the second Pembury lecture delivered by Father Alexander Lucie-Smith last week. Full of dark intrigue and glamour it tells the sinister story of the mafia in Southern Italy and how it has rubbed against the instit...

In this week's episode I sit down with a cup of tea and chat to novelist and priest Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

In this week's episode I call on all Christians worthy of the name to rouse from slumber and oppose the assaults on  faith in the present day. We stand at the precipice of a tyranny that has to be defeated for freedom to prevail.