This turbulent priest

Send us Fan Mail 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 leading academic expert on the work of the inklings.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode I ponder what the rise of Islam in formerly Christian countries might mean for our future and our faith?  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson' All views on this podcast are my own personal views and do not re...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson' All views on th...

Send us Fan Mail 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 different from his. It all makes for an episode which, wherever you personally stand, offers much food for thought.. Support the show You can...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and...

Send us Fan Mail 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... Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search...

Send us Fan Mail 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 the Pembury Lecture series.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thistur...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson' All views on this podcast are my own personal...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlins...

Send us Fan Mail 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 right lessons to be learned. It touches on so many sensitivities.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this...

Send us Fan Mail 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' Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for...

Send us Fan Mail 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?  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson' Al...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson' All views on this podcast are my own personal...

Send us Fan Mail 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 pedagogy of God.'  In the lecture Caroline refers to the apse of San Clemente Church in Rome. If you want to see it follow this lin...

Send us Fan Mail 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 sexuality." I also reflect briefly on the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.  Support the s...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson' All views on this podcast are my own personal view...

Send us Fan Mail 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 institution of the Catholic Church in history.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patre...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode I sit down with a cup of tea and chat to novelist and priest Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson' All views on this podcast are my own personal views and do not represent the views of...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and...

Send us Fan Mail 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 kingdom on earth? Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpries...

Send us Fan Mail 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 to be Saints in our own home"  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patre...

Send us Fan Mail 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!  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson' All views...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow this link  https://www.patreon.com/Thisturbulentpriest1974 Or visit patreon.com and search for 'Ed Tomlinson&apo...

Send us Fan Mail 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 that in return they must lay down their lives for their wives... Support the show You can now support me on patreon. Just follow thi...