Monsignor Peter Fleetwood speaks to Veronica Scarisbrick about the importance for
English Catholics today of such figures as Thomas More , Mary Ward , Edmund Campion
and Cardinal John Henry Newman whom Benedict XVI will beatify in Brimingham on Sunday
19th September:
"...lots of people who are aware of literature.. will be fascinated
by Newman ..the bulk of the people who will be interested will be Catholics...those
who came to England from Italy at the time of his reception into the Catholic Church
were part of a movement ...a time when people spoke often of the conversion of England
and I don't think that meant making England Catholic again so much as bringing the
Gospel back to life.."