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Catholic Nostalgia
Topic Started: Wednesday, 28. November 2007, 21:49 (1,043 Views)
Gerard

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MY friends at work used to laugh when I said I couldn't eat meat on Fridays because it was a sin, but I didn't mind because in those days we weren't as sensitive about such things as we are today.


Obviously the author was not describing Glasgow, where I grew up.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Rose of York
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Gerry, the author describes life in a cluster of West Riding of Yorkshire towns where the economy was based upon textiles and coal mining. Those industries had attracted a large number of Irish immigrants, hence a lot of Catholics.

Now you know a little about the culture in which Bishop Arthur Roche was raised. I wonder if he ever called his friends dirty prodidogs. I did, whenever I fell out with our Methodist friends. We would soon make it up and be pals again.

My mother had a bad name, for hanging washing out on Sundays. No good Methodist would have done that.

On Sundays the pavements had much pedestrian traffic, all going in their own directions. The solicitor, a bit posh went to High Church. The headmaster was a Methodist lay preacher. Some went to the Low Church, very poor people attended the Town Mission where they could go for soup when hard times hit them. Catholic women walked from church together, because after Mass the men lined up on the pavement. When the last man was out of the church they all did a smart left turn, and marched to the Cherry Tree pub. I used to think that was dreadful, the women slaving at the sink and the cooker while the men had their beer. I learned, no woman wanted a man in the way when she was cooking. In the pub the men would discuss families needing second hand clothes, sick and old people needing help putting up a shelf, and during the week they gave practical assistance.

I remember the happy bits, and push the bad memories to the back of my brain.

The author says we loved the nuns. Most were loved. One was a cruel tyrant.
Keep the Faith!

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Clare wrote:

"Everything is wonderful, because people can understand the words used in the liturgy - no matter that a lot of them have no clue about the faith."

Surely it is much better if people can understand the Readings and Prayers of the Liturgy, Sacraments and other Ceremonies than hear them as gobbedly gook?
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But nobody asked for Acts of Parliament to be created just to protect sensitive souls from insults, or to force entire populations to be nice to one another.

Neither were children dragged before court for calling a “Protestant” a “prodi -dog”, as Catholic kids often did when they spotted one in the street.

But the ‘Protestant’ kids weren’t saints either, and they had their own malicious responses, their particular favourite being ‘Mucky Catholics!’

It wasn’t nice and it wasn’t encouraged, but it wasn’t criminal either, and no lasting damage was done. In fact, over the years our relations improved and we became more united. Hallelujah!

http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/local/mixed_marriages_made_in_heaven_1_1341117

Even if the adults had behaved like that, nobody would have sued. They wouldn't have been able to afford it. Is calling a child mucky or dirty come under defamation of character or religiously related abuse?

The article does not mention that the nuns told us we must not attend bonfire night because it was anti-Catholic. If she hadn't told us we would not have known, anyway we didn't care, we carried on regardless, getting wood for the fire and enjoying the bonfire, Catholic and non-Catholic mothers making toffee apples and the men baking the potatoes.

Keep the Faith!

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