First of all, may I welcome you to this website, dedicated to the Birmingham Oratory, its history and life today. I know you will find here plenty of information designed to help you to grow in knowledge of this important Catholic institute and what it enshrines. Whether your interest is in this Oratory with its current apostolate or past and present community, in S. Philip and his worldwide family, in the fascinating figure of our founder, John Henry Newman or in those connected with the Oratory, such as J. R. R. Tolkien, you will find much to both inform and entertain.

Thank you for visiting this site: I hope you will return often!

Father Paul Chavasse