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see ‘The King and the Catholics’ review: Timely study of anti-Catholic Britain
This was the culmination of developments in which Catholics gained civil rights in Britain. Before, it had been illegal to say or hear mass or to be a priest or religious. Informants could turn priests in to be imprisoned or executed, it meant life imprisonment to operate a Catholic school, and Catholics could not legally own or inherit land.
Catholic emancipation in Great Britain “was not a measure of justice… so much as an act of expediency wrung from an unwilling government and an unsympathetic country by fear of the then Irish situation.” (“A Catholic Dictionary,” ed. Donald Attwater)
This was the culmination of developments in which Catholics gained civil rights in Britain. Before, it had been illegal to say or hear mass or to be a priest or religious. Informants could turn priests in to be imprisoned or executed, it meant life imprisonment to operate a Catholic school, and Catholics could not legally own or inherit land.
Catholic emancipation in Great Britain “was not a measure of justice… so much as an act of expediency wrung from an unwilling government and an unsympathetic country by fear of the then Irish situation.” (“A Catholic Dictionary,” ed. Donald Attwater)
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