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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

What Really Happened?

For 29 years Hubert Richards was an influential, much loved Roman Catholic priest, widely known in England and abroad as a scripture scholar, lecturer and author. From 1939, as a brilliant Roman College student, with a great sense of fun and endless energy, he started his diaries, recording seminary life in Rome and the ‘exile’ in Stonyhurst due to the war.

In June 1949, Fr Richards aged 27, spoke with the Pope in private audience, receiving his blessing to return to England as Professor of Scripture at the Westminster Seminary. His teaching and writing became an inspiration to many, at the seminary, at Corpus Christi College, and in lectures at home and abroad. Yet his scholarship and forward thinking was not welcomed by the English hierarchy, before and after the Vatican Council. When Cardinal Heenan forbade him to teach or preach to teachers and students, Hubert Richards sadly resigned from the priesthood.
He married Clare, became a devoted husband and father to their adopted Andean twins, and continued writing and university teaching in Norwich University.
Patiently and quietly he remained loyal to the Church. Towards the end of his life Cardinal Murphy O’Connor wrote:“ He is a marvellous teacher and has a wonderful gift of clarity and simplicity in his writings.”

On his death in 2010, a bishop wrote to Clare: “He was a great man and made a massive contribution which was not always recognised or welcomed.”

Clare has written this book, mindful that Pope Benedict has recently asked for a renewed study of the Bible. Bert had wanted this all his life.
Using his extraordinary diaries, with the letters and press cuttings he kept, she has been able to give a unique insight into the history of the English Catholic Church from 1939 until the present day.