Oh, please !
Lane Core gives a link to a book review. The review seems fair enough, but the book sounds exasperating, at least in part. That "rich, majestic and holy kingdom" was engaged in, among other things, putting Catholic priests to slow and excruciating deaths.
A quote from Msgr. Ronald Knox seems apt....( He was commenting on his own country-England- but it's close enough...)
"The losing side is wrong, because it lost; William of Normandy was a patriot, Philip of Spain a tyrant. The Reformation may be cherished by its devotees because the fires of Smithfield failed; it is recommended to the hearts of Englishmen because the hangings at Tyburn suceeded. For, as a race, we pay homage to the fait acompli . "
Lane Core gives a link to a book review. The review seems fair enough, but the book sounds exasperating, at least in part. That "rich, majestic and holy kingdom" was engaged in, among other things, putting Catholic priests to slow and excruciating deaths.
A quote from Msgr. Ronald Knox seems apt....( He was commenting on his own country-England- but it's close enough...)
"The losing side is wrong, because it lost; William of Normandy was a patriot, Philip of Spain a tyrant. The Reformation may be cherished by its devotees because the fires of Smithfield failed; it is recommended to the hearts of Englishmen because the hangings at Tyburn suceeded. For, as a race, we pay homage to the fait acompli . "
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