Many thanks to frequent commenter Clare for digging this up.

A couple of months ago, I mentioned how impressed I was by the main English-language voiceover person for papal liturgies – a woman whose identity was a mystery to me. (Just a note – in a recent liturgy, she was joined by someone I do sort of know – Catherine Smibert of Vatican Radio and ZENIT (she interviewed me for something when I was in Rome…).

So Clare did some digging and found that the first voiceover person not only has a name (surprise!) but a blog and a website.

She’s …

Sr. Janet Fearns is a Franciscan Missionary of the Divine Motherhood originally from Liverpool, and then Burscough, Lancashire, England. She entered the Congregation in 1973 and since then has spent her Religious life between England, Nigeria, Australia, Zambia and Rome. She now works with the English Programme of Vatican Radio.

Her website is called Pause for Prayer, and it’s full of reflections, podcasts and other good resources.

Her blog is also called "Pause for Prayer" – and has a subtitle worth pondering: "Making sense of life with God’s help."

She’s also got a regular montly column in the Lancaster UK diocesan paper

And Clare adds that last week, Sister had a piece on Vatican Radio, which can be heard here, on a breastfeeding initiative in the Philippines:

A recent advocacy initiative in the Philippines saw nearly 4000 mothers simultaneously breast-feeding their babies in the same place. Why do we need this kind of event to promote what should be one of the most natural things in the world?…

Clare also provided a related link – one that we’ve had here before, but a while ago – a great collection of images of Maria Lactans: Mary nursing Jesus.

(Incidentally – and forgive this post for being all over the place – one the many dumb moments in DVC: The Movie occurs during Langdon’s "lecture" on "symbology" in which he flashes slides of images on a screen and apparently cleverly confounds the audience of students into assuming they’re seeing one thing, but it’s actually another – so he flashes an ancient image of mother and child and says, "What is this?" and the call comes from the audience, something like "Mary and Jesus" or "Madonna and child" – ah, no, says Hanks coyly – it’s a pagan goddess, etc. and the audience gasps! Mon Dieu! We understand now – the Christian image must be…copied!)