✣Highlights from the week online
Don’t believe all the Catholic hype on May At ncregister.com, Joanna Bogle examined Michael Gove’s claim (reported in last week’s Herald) that Theresa May is the “first Catholic prime minister”. It’s true, Bogle wrote, that May’s Anglo-Catholicism “might shock some of the Protestant establishment of previous centuries”. And her conservatism is clearly one which “associates itself with concern for the poor and marginalised”.
But in other areas – notably her support for same-sex marriage – “her Toryism and her Anglicanism are of a kind that belong very much to the present era rather than to the Catholic social teachings of Leo XIII and St John Paul II.”
