It was much like any other gathering of Anglican clergy, except that all of them worked in some of the most challenged communities in the country. IN BETWEEN episodes four and five, I found myself at a clergy gathering. Time and again, he lights a candle “to remind us that Christ is here”, and, time and again, we sense that he is, too. He is flawed and, by many standards, unspectacular.īut he is there, in a life-giving way, for the mother with the mentally ill son, the policeman who is under intense pressure to cover up the truth, the children whose mother has taken her life, and the woman who has been stealing from her employer the list, over six weeks, went on. He carries his own demons of being abused at school and ill-treated by his mother, and having ill-treated women in his youth. What seems so refreshing about Fr Kerrigan is that he is not a “super-priest”. Later, he fails to prevent a mother killing herself, and, after trying to support a gay man, finds himself labelled “a bloody hypocrite” by the man. Throughout the six episodes, Fr Kerrigan is haunted by his failure, exhausted at the end of a long day, to pick up an answerphone message that could have saved the life of a mentally ill young man. There was no sign of growth in his congregation, and nothing approaching “missional activity”. Mediating over an assault of a gay man by a BME man was all just part of everyday life.įr Kerrigan’s parishioners may have thought him “a wonderful priest”, but he was certainly not, in contemporary terms, very successful. He knew that his parishioner had delayed notifying the police about her mother’s death so that she could claim the pension.
Little in the six episodes of Broken would have surprised many clergy working in the inner cities, and, of course, nothing surprised Fr Kerrigan.
It tells the story of a few days in the life of an inner-city Roman Catholic priest, Fr Michael Kerrigan, played by Sean Bean ( TV, 9 June). The rep explained, "Sean is due back at work on Monday so the honeymoon will have to be postponed.”īean was previously married to Debra James (1981-88), Melanie Hill (1990-97), Abigail Cruttenden (1997-2000), and Georgina Sutcliffe (2008-10).ON TUESDAY night, more than four million of us watched the final episode of Broken, BBC1’s nail-biting saga. The two, who met five years ago in NYC, are not planning to go on a honeymoon just yet. There probably weren't more than forty people there.”Īs for the newlyweds, the spokesperson said, "He's super happy, I've never seen him in so in love and committed and happy with Ashley. His rep told, "It was predominantly close family and friends Anna Friel was there, who's obviously starring with Sean in 'Broken' at the moment.”Īlong with being a bridesmaid, Anna's daughter Gracie also sang Elvis Presley's hit song “Can't Help Falling in Love.” The rep went on, "She played that on the guitar as Ashley walked down the aisle. On Friday morning, the “Game of Thrones” star, 58, tied the knot with fiancée Ashley Moore, 32, at at Axnoller Farm in Dorset.
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