Art can help make Britain Catholic again
SIR – The inspiring article written by TA Pascoe in your current edition (Cover story, June 3) is so incredibly important that all Catholics should rejoice and rush to join forces with him. We all know that Jesus’s command to his disciples was to go out and spread the word across the world, a world larger now than that known by his disciples 2,000 years ago. However, we now have modern means of transport and communications. Nevertheless let us start with our own hungry countryman. All Christians should evangelise. For 17 years I have produced, as a play, The Life of Christ; for seven years the Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square on Good Friday; and for 27 years the Nativity story as a play at my home at Wintershall in Surrey. Well over 300,000 people have seen these productions, which have helped to teach them about Jesus. They lap it up and want more – particularly the children, often led by atheist teachers. But I have not been able to follow up the teachings and need others. Every city, town and village could produce such teachings. It’s not an impossible task. We and our team at Wintershall will help any who want help to copy us. It’s a beginning; but of course there are other ways of teaching Christianity, and all need prayer. Yours faithfully, Peter Hutley OBE, KSG Wintershall, Surrey
