When explaining the papacy to Protestant friends, I usually employ the term “steward” and use Denethor from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as an example of what that means.
Denethor was the steward of the King. Denethor was not…
bishops
Dr Caroline Farey of the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, has been appointed as a participant in the forthcoming Synod of Bishops, in Rome, dedicated to the ‘the new Evangelisation and the Transmission of the Faith’.
Caroline is a regular contributor…
Recently I caught ten minutes of a ghastly television show called House. It’s a medical drama whose scripts, filming, direction, and acting cover the spectrum from dour to grim. The doctors were attempting to determine why an eighteen-year-old girl was…
