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The catholics, the church and its people in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the present day, Roy Hattersley

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The catholics

Roy Hattersley

the church and its people in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the present day

Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome - English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith. Even after the passing of the emancipation acts Catholics were still the victims of institutionalised discrimination. The first book to tell the story of the Catholics in Britain in a single volume, The Catholics includes much previously unpublished information. It focuses on the lives, and sometimes deaths, of individual Catholics - martyrs and apostates, priests and laymen, converts and recusants. It tells the story of the men and women who faced the dangers and difficulties of being what their enemies still call 'Papists'. It describes the laws which circumscribed their lives, the political tensions which influenced their position within an essentially Anglican nation and the changes in dogma and liturgy by which Rome increasingly alienated their Protestant neighbours - and sometime even tested the loyalty of faithful Catholics. The survival of Catholicism in Britain is the triumph of more than simple faith. It is the victory of moral and spiritual unbending certainty. Catholicism survives because it does not compromise. It is a characteristic that excites admiration in even a hardened atheist

pt. One The Making of a Minority -- 1.As Far as the Law of God Allows -- 2.The Cause Thereof -- 3.Forth, Pilgrims! Forth! -- 4.The Necessity of Doctrine -- 5.Sufficient Sacrifice -- 6.Come to Redeem His People -- 7.The Unquenchable Fyre -- 8.God Gave Us Elizabeth -- 9.Touching Our Society -- 10.More an Antique Roman? -- pt. Two Love God, Honour the King -- 11.Defiled with Some Infirmities -- 12.Let Loose to Say Masses -- 13.Liberty to Tender Conscience -- 14.Disobedience, Schism and Rebellion -- 15.Fidelity and Intire Obedience -- pt. Three A Prospect Tremendous -- 16.Think of Them with Kindness -- 17.A Species of Fanatical Phrenzy -- 18.A Set of Secular Gentlemen -- 19.The Most Jacobinical Thing -- 20.A Halo of Brightness -- 21.From the Flaminian Gate -- 22.Time is Short, Eternity is Long -- 23.The State of Things in Ireland -- 24.A Certain Cleavage -- 25.Put Him There. Put Him There -- 26.The Very Salt of Life -- pt. Four The Church Knows All the Rules -- 27.That Flame Burns Again -- 28.Making Catholicism Count -- 29.The Needs of Our Age -- 30.Love is Love -- 31.Suffer Little Children -- 32.And You Made Me Welcome