The Western Confucian writes:
The Catholic Faith, of course, does not depend in the least on even a single thread of the Shroud of Turin, and would not be weakened in the slightest were the latter's veracity torn to shreds by scientific proofs. However, it is interesting that it has not been.
As even the BBC had to admit a few years ago.
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We both know who won't be admitting it.
ReplyDeleteNow, now.
ReplyDeleteHe had better be praying, if he believes in such a thing, that neither the candidate whose only specific policy requirement was a commitment to abortion on demand up to and including partial birth, nor the candidate whose party wants to abolish church schools, is returned to "represent" the seat that contains not only major centres both of Irish and of Recusant Catholicism, but also Ushaw College.
After all, we do not want those actions to go ahead, the one before the Electoral Commission to have his rag counted as election spending, or the one before the Charity Commission to have its publisher deregistered on the same basis.
Actually, I am not sure that I would want that at this stage, although it would not necessarily be up to me. Let's see where things are by the autumn, say I. A lot can change between now and then...
But anyway, enough of this. This post is my one for today that is not even about the Church as an institution, but about God.