Posted by Jane
on 13/9/2009, 3:33:14, in reply to "Re: second son for Lord Nicolas Windsor "
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No, the issue is not with Catholics: after all, I'm one myself (having converted even before Lord Nicholas). Rather, I'm just noting that he and his wife seem to go out of their way to stress their religious identity -- to the point of flaunting.
As just one point: they could, for instance, have married in the UK (after all, there are plenty of Catholic churches there). Instead, they traveled all the way to the VATICAN. What were they trying to prove, anyway? Present themselves as super-Catholics of some sort?
If anything, this sort of thing diminishes the claims of universality, on the part of Catholicism. If the church indeed is universal, and the Windsors would like to see her as thus, they might simply have wed in Great Britain.
It seems to me that they were effectively dissociating themselves from the British people, with their strong display of Catholicism. I can't but wonder if their act may have possibly engendered a certain degree of hostility at home ... There are enough divisions in the world, and if you will, national society with the UK (everybody knows about the centuries-divide between Catholics and Protestants). Might not their decision be a sign of yet another "us-versus-them" thing, amongst the country's religious groups?
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: Jane, what is your issue with catholics?
: your your posting is - in mild words -
: utterly strange
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: --Previous Message--
: It sure would have been nice if their second
: child had been a girl. In that case, they
: could have given her a host of Marian names
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: Lord and Lady Nicholas Windsor sure are
: going out of their way to flaunt their
: Catholicism. While the timing of their
: child's birth was not entirely within their
: control, their choice of wedding site
: certainly was: the VATICAN, of all places
: ...
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: Perhaps they're trying to rub something into
: the royal family?
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: --Previous Message--
: The baby was born at Chelsea and Westminster
: Hospital on Tuesday - an auspicious day for
: his deeply Catholic parents, as it was the
: feast day of the Virgin Mary
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: http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities-news-in-pics/11-09-2009/52234/
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