Zombie Charles Kingsley, is that you?

I have rather wasted this morning by getting distracted by the Grauniad website, and worse still, the comments section (I ought to know better than to read below the line). It's too easy to point and mock some of the things that people say in CiF threads (there's an obvious reason, dear reader, why someone picked McCartney rather than Lennon in a discussion of the greatest living songwriters...), but it's still surprising to see how old meme continues to circulate.

Such as the guy who commented on the (shocking and dreadful) story about stolen babies in Spain, in which the Spanish government and apparently also the church authorities played a very discreditable role, by saying, more or less "No wonder Cardinal Newman thought it was OK to lie!"

That particular line's a real blast from the 1860s...