Now that I am officially a student of the Pontifical University, I thought it appropriate, contrary to what Nelly thinks, to remind people about how preposterous the historical roots of the Protestant churches really are. Here to help me is the unsurpassable Eddie Izzard:
Your Correspondent, Would have succeeded if it wasn’t for the pesky internet
Ha! Am about the third of the way through Alister McGrath’s history of the reformation and gradually understanding that… I did grow up in a church of ireland church that was named after “the hill of the black pig” and was rededicated once after someone got shot in it during a rather boistrous drunken country wedding. It was much less interesting when during my time there.
That McGrath book is fantastic. I adore it. An Cnoc Ar Muice Dubh?
well they changed it to knocknamuckley cause us prods had trouble pronouncing it. but then i remember there were lots of folk who were always twitchy about the use of the phrase “holy catholic church” in the creed too, as if it was some kind of oxymoron…