This turbulent priest
The musings, interviews, ravings and opinions of a Catholic priest looking out on the world as the Western Empire crumbles
Episodes
97 episodes
Dr Caroline Farey
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...
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Episode 97
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1:01:09
Stefan Kaminski on gender & human sexuality
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...
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Episode 96
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53:59
A chat with Mgr John Broadhurst
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.
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Episode 95
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46:37
The Mafia & the Catholic Church
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...
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Episode 94
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From Malta to the Mafia; a chat with Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
In this week's episode I sit down with a cup of tea and chat to novelist and priest Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
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Episode 93
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Join the rebellion: fight against the spirit of this age!
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.
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Episode 92
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35:05
Where are you sowing your seed?!
In this week's episode I share some of the history of the Harvest Festival, including tales of the delightfully eccentric Anglican Revd Robert Hawker. I also ask how our spiritual sowing and reaping is going in terms of building up God's kingdo...
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Episode 91
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46:47
Fr Edward Peters of the Bournemouth Oratory
In this week's episode I share the first in our latest monthly series of the Pembury lectures. Our first guest speaker was Fr Peter Edwards of the Bournemouth Oratory who spoke on the title "St Philip Neri & St John Henry Newman; helping us...
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Episode 90
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42:54
Denouncing the moral evil of Euthanasia
In this week's episode I reflect on the chilling news that Kier Starmer wants to fast track legalised Euthanasia through parliament before Christmas. This must be resisted by every Christian worth their salt!
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Episode 89
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51:24
What have the Christians ever done for us?
In this week's episode I share ten gifts that the Catholic faith has given to Western Society which need to be cherished and not taken for granted that we might prosper in the future.
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Episode 88
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52:15
The shroud & the imprisoned evangelical
In this week's episode I reflect on two stories in the news this week. New evidence relating to the infamous Shroud of Turin and the re-arrest and imprisonment of evangelical teacher Enoch Burke.
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Episode 87
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44:00
Should wives submit to husbands?
In this week's episode I weigh in on the debate surrounding St Paul's advice that wives should submit to their husbands. It makes modern feminists mad...but have they really understood what St Paul is driving at? After all husbands are told tha...
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Episode 86
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Murders and riots blight our nation
In this week's episode I reflect on the dreadful murder in England of several little children and the corresponding riots the assault provoked. I suggest that the working class are increasingly being failed and disenfranchised by metropolitan e...
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Episode 85
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Benedict Rogers; human rights activist & Catholic
In this week's episode I share a talk given at St Anselm's in 2016 by Benedict Rogers, human rights activist and a convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism.
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Episode 84
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1:06:45
If I were Pope for the day!
In this week's episode I share ten changes I would make if I were Pope for the day. Fortunately, for everyone, that will never happen as I am far too turbulent for that...
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Episode 83
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53:26
Sex, marriage & the family: Sexual Revolution V Catholicism
In this week's episode I ponder sex, marriage and the family and analysis how the outworking of the sexual revolution continues to be the greatest threat to the life and future of the Church.
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Episode 82
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1:28:45
General Election Special
In this week's episode I try and ponder how Catholics in Britain ought to be approaching the General Election? What should be non negotiable issues and what sort of society should we be seeking to promote by our vote?
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Episode 81
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53:09
Who's the daddy?
In this week's episode, inspired by a lecture given by Scott Hahn, I reflect on the crisis of masculinity in the West today and how it might be impacted not only the culture but also the life of the church and the priesthood. This one is all ab...
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Understanding the miraculous
In this week's episode I share a talk given in 2017 by Fr Marcus Holden whilst he was based at the Shrine of St Augustine's in Ramsgate.
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Episode 79
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1:12:19
What defines Christian spirituality?
In this week's episode I reveal the guest speakers at the forthcoming Pembury lecture series. I also share my meditation on the theme of Christian spirituality to help us see what is and isn't healthy in terms of the spiritual quest.
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Episode 78
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47:50
Princess Diana's psychiatrist
In this week's episode I speak to Karl Routlidge-Wilson. He runs the Pillar Box bar in Sherwood, Nottingham and was a bishop of the Continuing Anglican Church before he became a Catholic.
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Episode 77
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The new Ordinary & the African priest
In this week's episode I reflect on the news that Mgr Newton, who heads the Ordinariate in the UK, is retiring and a new Ordinary has been appointed. I also share a conversation with a brother priest from the neighbouring deanery.
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Episode 76
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45:58
Eastertide joy; reasons for Christian optimism in the West today
In this week's episode I reflect on hints of a Christian revival in the wider culture and also share my Easter sermon which reminds us to be of good cheer!
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Episode 75
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