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Saturday 26 September 2009

Ste Thérèse de Lisieux


It's easy to sneer at the RCs for queuing up to gawp at a few bits of a dead saint, but on the other side of the fence relics are considered to be extremely holy and objects of veneration in their own right. That we outside Roman Catholicism don't understand it is no excuse for sectarian sniping, which we can safely leave to the new religion of Atheism. Dr John Sentamu evidently has some reason for opening the doors of York Minster to Ste Thérèse, and that is good enough for me.

Mocking is easy. Respecting the practices of different belief systems is a lot harder.

1 comment:

  1. Bit depressing that you consider Roman Catholicism a different belief system. Odd too when many Anglicans have been to venerate S. Therese's relics, and many Anglican churches possess and honour the relics of the saints (one thinks for example of the shrine of S. Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral or the arm of S. Bartholomew at Canterbury).

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