An article by Dr. Colin Podmore, Director of Forward in Faith.

«The invitation to give this Assumptiontide Lecture is a great honour, but a daunting one: being invited to speak on this subject in Walsingham feels a little like being asked to carry coals to Newcastle. However, I am glad to make the attempt – not least because it enables me to pay tribute to Roger Greenacre, whose work on this subject I was privileged to publish last year in the volume Maiden, Mother and Queen: Mary in the Anglican Tradition (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2013). Roger was a priest associate of the Holy House from 1957 until his death three years ago. In this lecture I am standing on his shoulders, so to speak; had he lived, it would doubtless have been him standing here, not me».