Since proposing the Catholic League of the United Kingdom, I have been inundated with emails from every continent except Antarctica, from astonishingly highly-placed people whom I had no idea were readers of this blog, and not least from Protestants of various hues who have assured me that if such a thing existed then, even in Northern Ireland in several cases, they would never consider voting for any parliamentary candidate whom it had not endorsed. Of course, such candidates need not necessarily be Catholics themselves.
Could there be an ecumenical dimension? Up to a point, yes. The pro-life, pro-family, pro-worker and anti-war policies proposed by orthodox Catholics at any given time would certainly enjoy enormous ecumenical support, particularly among the parochial clergy and the laity. The same would apply to many or most of those relating to this country’s Christian heritage and to the ties among the historic Three Kingdoms, as well as to many or most of the local community projects.
For example, the Christian heritage list would certainly include the maintenance of Christian RE and collective worship in state schools, which is always under some sort of threat, and which is currently under particular attack in Wales, where the Union of Welsh Independents (Welsh-speaking chapels of Congregational polity and Reformed, “Calvinist” doctrine) are in the forefront of resistance. God bless them. And we should be proud to stand with them.
Or, in similar vein and to return to Protestantism in Northern Ireland, there is the exclusion of the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist bodies from their role in education. The stand against that exclusion could come under the maintenance of the United Kingdom’s Christian heritage. It could come under the ties among the historic Three Kingdoms. Or it could come under the Catholic interest in public service provision. For the Marxist terrorist organisation that now runs education in Northern Ireland is really only doing this as a warm-up. Its main, and frankly stated, aim is to exclude the Catholic Church from the schools of all thirty-two counties.
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OMG, the BPA project has been abandoned in favour of some looney form of Opus Dei.
ReplyDeleteSo are you designing your Ku-Klux-Klan-style uniforms yet you nutter!
The ego is obviously going overtime!
You ridiculous man!
I thought you didn't like the Welsh language.
ReplyDeleteBut the rest is deeply sound, although why didn't you mention Distributism?
Good luck with this. You cannot enter one or other House too soon.
Good to see that BDJ has been reading his Dan Brown, as is of course his level.
ReplyDeleteAnd now that he can never be the Labour MP for NW Durham, he can be as (Oedipally) abusive as he likes about orthodox Catholics, although note that he still will not use his real name when doing so.
Nor does he use it, either when calling me "the Mulatto Hitler", or when assuming that "the conservative Colbert" is a reference to The Colbert Report.
Will he use it when he pays up the, shall we say, hundred thousand pounds in compensation that he owes me for his past racial discrimination against me, sixty per cent of which will cover the deposits of our Strasbourg candidates?
Anonymous, on Welsh, see a post today. On Distributism, of course you are right. Distributism has very distinct echoes in the Puritan heritage, for example. It would play very well indeed in the North of Scotland or in North Wales. And so on.