
This turbulent priest
The musings, interviews, ravings and opinions of a Catholic priest looking out on the world as the Western Empire crumbles
Episodes
110 episodes
Revd Dr Michael Ward's lecture on J R R Tolkien
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...
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Episode 110
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1:03:45

8 Controversial but vital questions regarding the rise of Islam in the West
In this week's episode I ponder what the rise of Islam in formerly Christian countries might mean for our future and our faith?
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Episode 109
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47:43

A Lenten call to arms
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.
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Episode 108
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33:35

Must Christians believe in Evolution?
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...
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Episode 107
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1:38:57

Pre- Lent & the Gesima Sundays
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.
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Episode 106
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32:25

Understanding the next conclave: Postmodernism v Catholicism
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...
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Episode 105
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53:12

After secularisation: the future of British Catholicism
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...
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Episode 104
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1:13:01

A natter with Dr Bullivant
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.
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Episode 103
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53:26

A triumvirate of Holy Cardinals
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.
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Episode 102
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38:59

Pondering the grooming gang scandal
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...
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Episode 101
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50:52

Abbot Hugh Allen
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'
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Episode 100
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38:30

Advent; a time for lamentation
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?
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Episode 99
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30:19

Pondering prisons
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.
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Episode 98
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46:27

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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55:12

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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1:03:08

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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