tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post153851060265852818..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Bring back the Freaks and the fleasFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-76476469968841251532019-09-09T11:56:25.735+01:002019-09-09T11:56:25.735+01:00There were cradle Catholics who also became vintag...There were cradle Catholics who also became vintage Oxford eccentrics. A teacher of mine has a fond memory of Gervase Matthew OP, in an extremely grubby Dominican habit, standing in a reverie in the traffic island in the middle of Beaumont Street, which he would occasionally interrupt by munching on a toffee apple. My old friend, a graduate student of JND Kelly who was received into the Church byPMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1379152467992567612018-09-02T22:03:41.939+01:002018-09-02T22:03:41.939+01:00May I suggest as "NewChurch" Freaks a co...May I suggest as "NewChurch" Freaks a contribution, if they are still around next year, of the Bergoglian Cardinalate Team? (Redbrick to a man[?] I hear.) Their gargoylian spouting of hysterical, heretical nonsense is sure to amuse the Dominicans and their neighbouring Puseyite chaps as they caper along Giles. Soo-Cupich went down deeply in that Other Place a few weeks ago, hmmmm? What Ignatius, Cornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06682463477631323674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14271329648625587712018-09-01T17:59:45.437+01:002018-09-01T17:59:45.437+01:00Catholics don't believe in coincidence! From t...Catholics don't believe in coincidence! From todays' news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-tyne-45347178/northumberland-street-performer-s-life-saved-by-skills he even manages to give it a mildly salvific slant!Josephus Muris Saliensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888638147153175697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12607518291826165432018-09-01T12:12:40.968+01:002018-09-01T12:12:40.968+01:00Sure His Holiness could dispatch a selection of hi...Sure His Holiness could dispatch a selection of his more self-important leprous courtiers, suspect monsignori, creepy Cardinals, androgynous priests, and old women of both sexes to catch a cheap flight to London then hop on the Oxford Tube? After all, Brexit hasn't come in yet, and any American prelates terrified of arrest and interrogation could simply stay in hiding at some louche bar, low Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-60487842823969707482018-09-01T11:51:57.551+01:002018-09-01T11:51:57.551+01:00Dear Father, for such traditions you need to come ...Dear Father, for such traditions you need to come further West; the Dorset Steam Fair (sadly tied to the secular August Bank Holiday weekend, so you have just missed this year's) still has a Freak Show.<br /><br />Just the thing for an Ordinariate outing; what could be more Patrimony than a day amongst the traction engines and a viewing of the Freaks? Perhaps there are still Motorcycling RichardThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16761130714944237699noreply@blogger.com