"THE KING AND THE CATHOLICS"
The editor of this blog thoroughly commends to you, during this election period of hyperbole, hollow rhetoric and vitriol in the Brexit battle (whichever side you have adopted), the wonderful new book by Lady Antonia Fraser - "The King and the Catholics - the Fight for Rights 1829", a history of Catholic Emancipation. Whether as a grotesque sense of parliamentary déja-vu, or as a welcome diversion from our present equally unending (but less erudite) debates, this volume is un-put-downable.
It has been observed by some commentators in recent weeks that, just short of the 2nd centenary of Emancipation, Catholics are again being excluded by the Establishment (which perhaps we never truly rejoined) from the political realm, and this lends this volume a further piquancy.
Antonia Fraser is a friend from childhood of many members of our Order, and one of the most delightful historical story-tellers of the modern age. Every Catholic residing in Britain and Ireland should read this book.