Last year's post stands. Although married to a Catholic and a regular attender at Mass, I am quite happy with commemoration of the 12th. For all but a few on either side, religion is but the visible badge of a tribal allegiance, where Catholic signified Irish and Protestant a Briton. Insulting the Holy Father, peace and long life be upon him, is, while distasteful, not the greatest crime upon this earth.
Though what effect the new Religious Hatred Bill will have upon the 12th, I dread to think.
My gripe goes back a bit earlier - to Henry VIII and his stripping of the altars. Where now are the shrines of Wulfstan and Oswald ?
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