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Fr Michael Ward

The untold tale of Tolkien’s faith
July 04, 2023
Fr Michael Ward on a new book exploring the writer’s spiritual side. I became a Catholic in no small part because of JRR Tolkien. Raised as an Evangelical Anglican in the 1970s to be extremely suspicious of Catholics, I nonetheless found Tolkien’s imaginative world of Middle-earth captivating. I also knew that Tolkien had been close
Aslan is a brilliant representation of Jesus. But where’s Mary?
September 29, 2020
Seventy years ago, in October 1950, a book bearing a curious title was published: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The first of CS Lewis’s seven Chronicles of Narnia, it soon established itself as a classic of children’s fiction and has now sold untold millions around the world in more than 40 languages. In
A woefully unconvincing Tolkien biopic
May 02, 2019
What kind of man wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? What were his formative experiences? Finnish director Dome Karukoski tries to answer those questions by portraying the early life of the famed author in the new film Tolkien. (Spoilers follow.) We first encounter Tolkien (played by Nicholas Hoult) in the trenches of
This Tolkien biopic is woefully unconvincing
April 30, 2019
What kind of man wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? What were his formative experiences? Finnish director Dome Karukoski tries to answer those questions by portraying the early life of the famed author in the new film Tolkien. (Spoilers follow.) We first encounter Tolkien (played by Nicholas Hoult) in the trenches of
What is it actually like to be ordained a priest?
July 27, 2018
Fr Michael Ward shares his experience on being ordained as the Ordinariate's 100th priest
Diary: by Fr Michael Ward
July 26, 2018
To Birmingham, to be ordained priest. The car journey north from my home in the suburbs of Oxford starts out by taking me past Newman Road in Littlemore. I reflect, not for the first time, on certain parallels between my life and that of the great Victorian cardinal. Like him, I was raised in an
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