tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post8075924027435416709..comments2024-01-10T06:40:26.416-05:00Comments on Chesterton and Friends: Belloc Redux?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-76437627585363977762007-10-19T15:59:00.000-04:002007-10-19T15:59:00.000-04:00One of the things that has struck me recently, as ...One of the things that has struck me recently, as I've been reading a lot of pre-Reformation English literature and history, is the fact that England was so steeped in Marian devotion before the Reformation, but so anti-Marian in recent centuries. Marian devotion was a stumbling block for John Henry Newman and was undoubtedly one of the things that kept C.S. Lewis out of the Church. <BR/><BR/>There is such an enormous divide and Duffy's book certainly documents it in detail. I haven't read Belloc's book, but the pictures alone in Duffy's book document the tragedy that occurred. As a convert one of the things I've had to really come to terms with is that a lot of the "history" I grew up with was very partisan in nature. Duffy's book went a long way to explaining the anti-Catholicism of my parents. grandparents, and in-laws. What happened in England was as stark as anything that happened in Soviet Russia.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05127202199834183627noreply@blogger.com