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Paper on Pope's Visit: "This was the End of the British Empire"
TheSacredPage.com ^ | Friday, September 17, 2010 | Michael Barber commenting on British publication

Posted on 09/21/2010 3:49:00 PM PDT by Salvation

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Barber comments on publication from England.
1 posted on 09/21/2010 3:49:04 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: Salvation

There’s only one problem. There’s no Ronald Reagan to stand up and say, “Mr. President, tear down this wall!”


2 posted on 09/21/2010 3:52:36 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; markomalley; ...

Indeed, the Pope took the English people by a quiet storm called love.

May God sustain the Pope!


3 posted on 09/21/2010 3:53:43 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

The Pope’s way too late - at best, he’s third in line to take possesion of Great Britain, first behind the Communists and second behind the Muslims.


4 posted on 09/21/2010 3:55:23 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Salvation
Yep. B-16 is a heavyweight. ABC is an ultralight.
5 posted on 09/21/2010 3:55:40 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Salvation
“The sense that this was a nation specially blessed by God arose from a deeply anti-Catholic reading of the Bible”

Yeah, how many times is England mentioned in the Bible? I don't care how anti-Catholic you try to read the Bible, it is hard to read into it that an unmentioned Island inhabited at the time by unlettered pagan barbarians is specially blessed by God.

And did English history START with Henry VIII, the wife killer? There were no good Catholic English Kings worthy of mention before that august personage who broke with the Catholic Church over his desire for a male heir and ever younger strumpets in his bed?

6 posted on 09/21/2010 4:03:00 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: Salvation

The British empire died in 1945, upon the elevation of Clement Atlee and the Labour party to the government.


7 posted on 09/21/2010 4:06:08 PM PDT by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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To: Salvation

I can’t help but think about the many English martyrs who prayed that this day would come.


8 posted on 09/21/2010 4:19:32 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: allmendream

Yeah, I love talking about Henry V, wonderful King. Everyone knows him. Devout Catholic who fought to reclaim France. :)

If only he’d lived and we’d never have heard about the Tudors.


9 posted on 09/21/2010 4:20:48 PM PDT by BenKenobi ("Henceforth I will call nothing else fair unless it be her gift to me")
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To: Slyfox

Absolutely.


10 posted on 09/21/2010 4:24:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: BenKenobi
Richard wasn't bad either, as far as a historic person, not so great for England; but then again he wasn't exactly English other than his father - who he hated and drove to his death over the imprisonment of his mother (and other concerns).

But come on, it isn't as if Henry VIII was the greatest of all English Kings, and English history begins and ends with his cleaving off from the Catholic church.

11 posted on 09/21/2010 4:27:57 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: Talisker

The Church of England refuses to stand against the Muslims. I’m wondering if perhaps some in Britain are sensing that the last man standing against the barbarians is the Pope, and that they wish to be standing behind him. It’s just a sense that I have.


12 posted on 09/21/2010 4:32:47 PM PDT by Excellence ("A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.")
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To: Salvation

Good riddance


13 posted on 09/21/2010 4:33:37 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: GenXteacher

Actually at some point in early 1943 the US Navy overtook the Royal Navy in number of capitol ships. Max Hastings (in Winston’s War as I recall) points to that as the end of the British Empire.


14 posted on 09/21/2010 4:34:47 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: Salvation

Yes, pray for the Pope daily, as Our Lady Of Fatima specifically requested!


15 posted on 09/21/2010 4:40:16 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: atomic_dog
Very interesting.

From Trafalgar to 1943, Britain ruled the waves.

An Arab couldn't believe a man would follow a Queen. He told Laurence that ‘My king has a dozen cannons, how many does your QUEEN have?’. He gave some diplomatic answer, but my answer would be....... “Half.”.

“Half of a cannon?”

“No, of all the cannons that there are in the entire World, My Queen has half of them.”

That would be a reasonable assessment at the time, of the cannons worth having at least.

16 posted on 09/21/2010 4:40:18 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: Talisker

I don’t know. Rome needs to start smacking down the phony liberal American Catholic Church for a start. The phony Notre Dame/Kennedy Catholics who voted for the Islamist and partial birth abortion.

However, the English people may have seen a flickering light. The majority of Brits want to emigrate because co-Islamsists B-LIAR and Browne sent the country down a path of hell. Rowan Williams chimed in with his surrender to sharia. A large silent majority of Brits do not want to go silently.

Hopefully Pope Benedict will awaken these Brits. Something happened during his visit.

To their credit, they have not elected an Islamist to rule them like TV watching idiots in another country brainwashed by TV.


17 posted on 09/21/2010 4:57:21 PM PDT by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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To: Talisker

Exactly, what UK Anglicans are discarding, others are not.

I do find the writer is more than overwrought as simply common sense would say there is a battle of Ideas not Might of the State as no one wishes to go back to the old way of a nice war every 50 yrs or so just to see who is who.


18 posted on 09/21/2010 5:18:57 PM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: Salvation

What has this guy been smoking? The British Empire ended decades ago!


19 posted on 09/21/2010 5:23:46 PM PDT by sailor4321
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To: sailor4321

Or was the author talking more about the Church of England and using the phrase 00 the British Empire?

Should it read

Paper on Pope’s Visit: “This was the End of the Church of England”??


20 posted on 09/21/2010 5:34:17 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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