VATICAN INSIDER WELCOMES BACK FR. CHRISTOPHER PEARSON

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VATICAN INSIDER WELCOMES BACK FR. CHRISTOPHER PEARSON

In this week’s interview segment, Vatican Insider welcomes back Fr. Christopher Pearson, pastor of Most Precious Blood parish in London. As I mentioned last week in Part I of our conversation, we’ve been friends for over a dozen years, as you will hear in the amusing start of our conversation, and Fr. Christopher was in Rome to concelebrate at the January 5 funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

What links us in friendship is one of Pope Benedict’s major achievements – the creation in 2009 of the Personal Ordinariate, a canonical structure within the Catholic Church established to enable “groups of Anglicans” to join the Catholic Church while preserving elements of their liturgical and spiritual patrimony. Fr. Chris was an Anglican pastor for 15 years and talks about his becoming a Catholic priest. He highlights Benedict’s great desire for Christian Unity, citing the Ordinariate as one example of how that can be achieved.

Fr. Christopher, Maggie McDaniel of Catholic Faith Journeys and I shared a great meal at Taverna Agape while they were in Rome.  Fr. Chris was in Rome to concelebrate Pope emeritus Benedict’s funeral Mass.

Fr. Christopher is always a total delight to be with and you always learn a great deal from him. I am blessed that we are friends! And now Maggie knows him – maybe she’ll do a pilgrimage to the UK and the Ordinariate of Walsingham!

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UPDATE WITH PHOTOS: VATICAN INSIDER WELCOMES FR. CHRISTOPHER PEARSON

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VATICAN INSIDER WELCOMES FR. CHRISTOPHER PEARSON

Lots of news this weekend on Vatican Insider (as there always seems to be!), and also a special guest on the interview segment, Fr. Christopher Pearson – pastor of Most Precious Blood parish in London. We’ve been friends for over a dozen years, as you will hear in the amusing start of our conversation, and Fr. Christopher was in Rome to concelebrate at the January 5 funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

What links us is one of Pope Benedict’s major achievements – the creation in 2009 of the Personal Ordinariate, a canonical structure within the Catholic Church established to enable “groups of Anglicans” to join the Catholic Church while preserving elements of their liturgical and spiritual patrimony. Fr. Chris was an Anglican pastor for 15 years and talks about his becoming a Catholic priest. He highlights Benedict’s great desire for Christian Unity, citing the Ordinariate as one example of how that can be achieved.

Fr. Christopher, Maggie McDaniel of Catholic Faith Journeys and I shared a great meal at Taverna Agape while they were in Rome.

Fr. Christopher is a total delight to be with and you always learn a great deal from him. I am blessed that we are friends! And now Maggie knows him – maybe she’ll do a pilgrimage to the UK and the Ordinariate of Walsingham!

I decided to add two photos of the mug Fr. Christopher brought from London:

IN THE UNITED STATES, you can listen to Vatican Insider (VI) on a Catholic radio station near you (stations listed at www.ewtn.com) or on channel 130 Sirius-XM satellite radio, or on http://www.ewtn.com. OUTSIDE THE U.S., you can listen to EWTN radio on our website home page by clicking on the right side where you see “LISTEN TO EWTN.” VI airs at 5am and 9pm ET on Saturdays and 6am ET on Sundays. On the GB-IE feed (which is on SKY in the UK and Ireland), VI airs at 5:30am, 12 noon and 10pm CET on Sundays. Both of these feeds are also available on the EWTN app and on www.ewtnradio.net ALWAYS CHECK YOUR OWN TIME ZONE! For VI archives: go to https://www.ewtn.com/radio/audio-archive and write the name of the guest for whom you are searching in the SEARCH box. Below that, will appear “Vatican Insider” – click on that and the link to that particular episode will appear.