341. Anti-Popery Pictures in the Daily Mail U.K.
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| St Pancras, the only Catholic church of 22 in Lewes As you can see, no bells- And then they say the The Penal Laws against Catholics have been repealed... |
The Daily Mail reported pictures of banners
with words saying “NO POPERY” written as large as life on them. Yesterday,
November 5th was bonfire night when the British “celebrate” the unsuccessful
attempt of the Catholic Guy Fawkes, in 1605, to blow up parliament in the reign
of James I who would have been only too pleased had they succeeded since he
hated parliament and wanted supreme power to be his alone.
Heading the procession were 17 people carrying
a huge flaming cross to represent the 17 protestant heretics burned at the
stake in Lewes, outside where the town hall s now, by order of Queen Mary, the
Catholic daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, aka, Queen Elizabeth’s
I step-sister, who being protestant killed off as many if not more Catholics
just to get even. However, not that I agree with what Mary did but it wasn’t
she who started the feud of Catholics against Protestants and vice-versa but
her father Henry VIII who locking up his legitimate wife, Catherine of Aragon
and Mary’s mother, in the Tower married Anne Boleyn and chopped off the head of
anyone who got in the way.
Since the Pope refused to grant Henry VIII
a divorce against Catherine, Henry abolished the Catholic Church, made being a
Catholic a crime punishable by death, appointed new priests and bishops and executed
anyone who did not sign the act of Supremacy which made him the head of the
Church of England hence renouncing the Catholic faith. Among those executed was
what, a Catholic “friend” of mine claimed, in a tweet to me “Thomas More the polemicist
was rather nasty in my view, though one should allow for different times and
all that.” And believe it or not, it was a nun who wrote that to me... That same
nun who months later accuses me of “Odium theologicum”* because I dared to comment on her blog on something I did not entirely agree
with. This therefore shows that some Catholics in the Western World can be just as narrow-minded as Protestants- or haven't got the guts to stand up for their faith and claim that Catholics are penalized in England even nowadays.
And here I rest my case because I feel sheer disgust
that a civilized country as England in the 21st century can still have
hatred ostentatiously expressed against Catholics and dutifully splashed all
over the pages of the Daily Mail- but it had to be said- it had to be blogged
because people in Europe, in the Americas, and other continents have not the
slightest idea that such is still possible. They too should know how the
British treat Catholics. Let’s hope it’s only a few hot-headed hooligans down
in Lewes that have that opinion- in my experience the majority of British
people are laudable and admirable and I for one, who was brought up by them, love them very much.
*A proverbial term for the ill-feeling generated between people who differ either on deep matters of faith, or even on relatively minor issues of ritual or theological speculation.
