The case for canonising ‘St Mugg’
SIR – With the apparent demise of the Cause of GK Chesterton (Week in Review, August 9) is it not time to look at Malcolm Muggeridge as a Servant of God? Muggeridge (1903-1990) was as good a writer as Chesterton and as a Christian communicator and activist more accomplished. He would make a good contemporary saint of journalism and the mass media, but of repentance most of all. At the time of his death he would cry out again and again “Father, forgive me”.
He not only had great wit but also a hidden charisma of reaching out to many in distress. Above all during the social upheavals of the “permissive society”, when too many Catholics preferred to look the other way, he bore public witness to the moral teachings of our faith. One of his favourite quotes was “only dead fish go with the flow”. Of course, he would have regarded the prospect of his sanctity as hilarious, which would make his Cause all the more endearing.
