Day: May 1 2016

When is a catholic not a ‘real’ catholic?

Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, takes issue with those who would ‘adjudicate infallibly’ on who was catholic enough to have identified themselves as catholic in the recent census.
‘Usually this rigid definition of what constitutes a Catholic … comes not from agnostic or atheistic sources but from very conservative, ultra-traditional Catholics who are impatient with what they regard as any perceived diminution in Catholicism. Usually liberal media .. tend to be more amenable to those who fail to reach the ideal, apart obviously from Catholics, for whom a new and worrying intolerance is developing.’

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