This week’s episode of the BBC series Father Brown – based on G.K. Chesterton’s sleuth priest – caused a few winces for one viewer: Fr Tony Nye, a Jesuit based at Farm Street, Mayfair, who was the programme’s religious adviser.“My job was to make sure the series is as faithful as possible to 1950s Catholicism,” he told us. Most of it was right but there were one or two slips. “Fr Brown mentions he’s about to ‘take confession’ whe
15 January 2015, The Tablet
Fr Brown slips
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