Flanked by two enormous eighteenth-century portraits of long-dead judges, on Saturday 13th November Cardinal George Pell delivered the Oxford University Newman Society’s annual Thomas More Lecture—sponsored this year by the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham—in the Examination Schools on the High Street.
As the President—Vincent Elwin, of Mansfield College—observed in his opening remarks, Pell himself inaugurated the annual lecture in 2009. On that occasion he spoke on religious and secular intolerance and its implications for Christian witness in the contemporary age. Much has occurred in the intervening years, including the cardinal’s time—as he himself put it—“in the clink”.
