Portrait of Anthony Storey, an outstanding Catholic priest

John Sullivan
13 June 2019, The Tablet

Carefully researched, elegantly written, in places deeply moving, in others hilarious, this biography provides a wonderful portrait of Anthony Storey's effect on the lives of those who ­experienced his ministry.

Peter Roebuck's biography of Anthnoy Storey conveys the pressures, expectations, constraints and opportunities afforded to secular priests, their working conditions, their relationships with fellow clergy and parishioners, and the on-the-ground realities of a changing Church and a society in flux.

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