Terry Prone: Doubting Thomas’s outlook is not the only one — and that’s gospel

The 21st century probably approves more of Doubting Thomas than did others down through the years, writes Terry Prone.

In ‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas’, Caravaggio shows the apostle poking his finger into Jesus’s wound to prove to himself that it is real. The picture is in the collection of the Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Potsdam, Germany. File picture

About festivals they were never wrong, the early Christians. How well they understood the need for release and redemption after the long, bleak winter months.

They didn’t create the annual rhythms of deprivation and excess, but they pinned them to the mind of the faithful just as Patrick pinned the pagan to the earth with a misplaced crozier.