Posted by estella
on 13/9/2009, 4:52:19, in reply to "The Catholic Windsors"
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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.
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: 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?
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: 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.
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: 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?
Only if people in those religious groups let it.
: --Previous Message--
: 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
: ...
:
: 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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