English Catholics

[Angannas]

Sorry for the delay in replying, but many of us don’t. I have to be honest however and admit that many do. Personally I don’t - I am Cornish, not English. I support Wales in Rugby, but I do support England in cricket

 

[Anicette]

I predict that the UK will be a majority Muslim county within 50 years.

I don’t think so.
I am sure it would become the first religion, but the society is very very secular. The majority of people would be without religion at all.

( i live in western europe, not in England).

 

[LawyersGunsAndMoney]

I am an Englishman, and I feel perhaps slightly disheartened that you do not agree. I am, however a Catholic who is devoted above all (including England) to a love of Christ and his most blessed virgin mother.

You’re not an Englishman. You’re a New Zealander. There’s nothing wrong with either, but…you’re not English. You have English ancestry. So do I, but no one in my family has been English since the 1800s.

This all feels a little contrived and forced, like you needed a “character” to inhabit and landed on “English country gentleman from the 19th century.” The insistence on anachronism and “gentry” status is frankly a little odd, almost as though you were insisting that you were a Viking or a samurai or something.

You’re not a Yorkshire gentleman farmer in Victorian England. You’re a guy from New Zealand in 2019. Nothing wrong with that.

Again, how you dress and behave is up to you. Nothing wrong with being an Anglophile. But it does feel like you’re trying to play a character as opposed to just being yourself.

 

[Anicette]

Did the Muslim families insist on the school taking down the crosses or was it the government in the name of political correctness?

in the catholic school where I worked in France the question or putting again the christians symbols (icons) that have been removed from the wall’s classes was debated. The direction was ready. The people who are against are not muslins families (they are not asked), nor the government, but the hidden faithfull Catholic professors. They argued that their faith is vital to their mission of teaching, but don’t want to exlude others (including muslins). the faith should be seen in their work only (humm…)

self-censorship.
Perhaps others schools in others cultural areas experience the same?

( we maned it “landfilling ministry”, and it can be a plague for the ministry).