Every now and then a chance encounter can change the way we see the world, and sometimes the direction of our lives.
One such occasion happened one wet Friday in February 2009 when I met Fr Dermot Fenlon at the Birmingham Oratory, the church founded by the Victorian Cardinal St John Henry Newman.
Fenlon was a very impressive man. A good friend of journalist and author Ruth Dudley Edwards, he had given up an illustrious academic career lecturing in history at the University of Cambridge to become a priest after discovering Newman.
