While some Catholics may be celebrating the news about Archbishop Viganòis being dragged to the Vatican by his tinfoil mitre, others are not so sure.
Schism stuff aside, some see in his observations from the bottom of the rabbit hole an element of truth about the way in which we are being manipulated. To a certain extent, ‘twas ever thus, but it is the current manipulation of the past to fit certain present-day ideologies that is especially concerning.
In 2021, Channel 5 produced a miniseries depicting Anne Boleyn as a black woman. In 2022, Shakespeare’s Globe put on a show called “I, Joan”, which depicted St Joan of Arc as “non-binary”. And now the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth (the Yorkshire home where the three Brontë sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels), has “queered” Charlotte, Emily and Anne because they used male pseudonyms when writing (who knows what J.K. Rowling will turn out to be in 200 years).
