tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post3734590295026359324..comments2023-08-25T16:13:51.356+01:00Comments on Martin In The Margins: Mass beatification revives passions of Spanish Civil WarMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-38282840408168505622007-11-03T13:13:00.000+00:002007-11-03T13:13:00.000+00:00Thanks for the comments.JimJay - I like your blog ...Thanks for the comments.<BR/><BR/>JimJay - I like your blog - as a fellow East Anglian, it's good to know there's some kind of political life out there...<BR/><BR/>Freens: your rupture with Catholicism was obviously cleaner than mine, and perhaps you don't feel Evelyn Waugh's 'twitch upon the thread' as I occasionally do. During my brief period as a practising Catholic - this was in the late 70s / early 80s in Manchester - I was fortunate enough to know quite a few left-wing Catholics, even the odd Catholic Marxist, so I hold on to the hope that the present pope and the reactionary Spanish church don't represent the whole Church, and that some kind of rapprochement between Ccatholicism and Enlightenment principles might be possible...<BR/><BR/>MartinMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-17899130356991449112007-11-02T19:03:00.000+00:002007-11-02T19:03:00.000+00:00For 22 years of my adult life I was a practising C...For 22 years of my adult life I was a practising Catholic. I still hold to what I wrote; 'quod scripsi, scripsi' as we used to hear in the recitation of the Passion on Good Friday...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-45646646699350603672007-11-02T18:02:00.000+00:002007-11-02T18:02:00.000+00:00Thanks for this - really interesting post.Thanks for this - really interesting post.Jim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.com