tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post5534815320734096991..comments2024-03-23T18:12:43.833+00:00Comments on Once I Was A Clever Boy: Books on St Margaret ClitherowOnce I Was A Clever Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-87270524184168625332013-05-23T13:27:55.535+01:002013-05-23T13:27:55.535+01:00Those who take the Gardiner review of the Lake/Que...Those who take the Gardiner review of the Lake/Questier book as revealed knowledge about that book's position on the martyrdom of St Margaret ought perhaps to look at the book itself to see if Gardiner represents its thesis accurately. I fear that she does not do so. To repeat her contention blindly is to resemble those Islamists who frequently and vehemently tell each other that Rusdie's The Satanic Verses is a terrible book without ever so much as having laid eyes on it. I'd urge more care among good Catholic intellectuals. The Lake/Questier book is actually a complex account of how St Margaret's martyrdom occurs and what her martyrdom means in the historical moment in which it occurs. Surely a worthy object of contemplation. Well, I find it so. Phoebe D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-32049254274085282572011-07-04T20:33:41.361+01:002011-07-04T20:33:41.361+01:00The current number of Christian Order carries a ve...The current number of <i>Christian Order</i> carries a very negative review of the Lake-Questier book by Dr Anne Gardiner, accusing it of smearing St Margaret and "exculpating Judas" (Bell). Exhibiting the moderate tones for which that publication is so well known, we learn that "[w]hat this work amounts to, then, is an underhanded attack on the Catholic Church and its claim to infallibility... the authors contend that the sainthood of Margaret Clitherow is an invention of anti-Bell propaganda, a construction of a martyr for political ends... [the] entire book, then, is a sneer at the Catholic Church's process of canonisation."bishop williamson's menorahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-76053095231564082142011-07-02T11:37:57.712+01:002011-07-02T11:37:57.712+01:00Thank you very much for the link! The book did add...Thank you very much for the link! The book did add to my understanding of the conflict between the Recusants and the Appellants. The authors cite Longley's book consistently.Stephanie A. Mannhttp://www.supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com