Mary, Mother of Socialism?

[tree_and_leaf]

I've found an interesting site.

http://www.anglocatholicsocialism.org/

Hurrah for high church radicalism!

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

http://www.anglocatholicsocialism.org/noel.html#flags

“Towards the end of the 1914-1918 an Irish lady, living in my parish and knowing my sympathy for the cause of her country, presented me with a Sinn Fein flag to put in the church. We already had the old national flag of St. George, and these two represented nationality. But I felt that this nationality in which 'none is afore, or after other; none is greater, or less than another' should be balanced by some symbol which should represent the One in Many and the Many in One. What, then, could be better than to add to these national flags the International, in which the Variety in Unity and the Unity in Variety -- the very nature of he God who created the universe -- should be worshiped? What better symbol than this could there be than the Red Flag with the inscription: 'He hath made of one blood all nations'?”

Results as predicted. Retaliatory ladder use, fascist Cambridge students turn up, tyre slashing. Who said rural life was dull?

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh boy.

I particularly loved the unironic use of the term 'malcontents', and the chap who mentioned Leon Trotsky, Thomas More and George Tyrrel in the same breath.

If only the League of Nations had got it's act together to have a flag, all the unpleasantness could have been avoided - and Fr Noel would have been deeply disappointed. I have to say, I am glad I wasn't his bishop - though I think it's a better issue for the church to be having internal battles about than human sexuality...

[tree_and_leaf]

I also note that he appeared to think that Communists were better than Non-Conformists.

Not a natural ecumenist, then.