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Towards an English Catholic Social Conscience, 1829–1920

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Bernard Aspinwall
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‘All this talk of socialism is just a ruse. The people are starving and we must not play the policeman for England.’ wrote Archbishop Thomas W. Croke of Cashel in 1880. His attitude was far more intelligent and realistic than The Tablet and its reactionary supporters. Irish bishops were desperately concerned about massive Irish emigration in the late nineteenth century: the threat to the faith at home, the possible loss of souls overseas and the Church’s inability to serve her people was worrying. However zealous in its defence, the Irish bishops remained powerless to halt English popular and government support for the destruction of the Temporal Power. They saw other priorities emerging: by 1880 the recovery of the Temporal Power was a forlorn hope. They must take the high moral ground of humanity rather than property.

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British Catholic History , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , May 2000 , pp. 106 - 119
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6 The English Catholic Community, 1570–1850, (London 1975), pp. 327–37, 345 argues that even the increased social standing of the Catholic aristocracy and gentry in the early nineteenth century failed to increase their power within the Church. By the late nineteenth century episcopal deference to them was in decline. The Archbishop of Liverpool’s closure of the private chapel on the Scarsbrick estate and the Bishop of Galloway’s refusal to remove a popular priest from Rothesay who was unacceptable to Lady Bute are indicative of that shift. All that remained was aristocratic political influence which might be used in parliamentary elections or behind the scenes in Rome. Cannadine, David, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, (New Haven 1990) pp. 561–68 discusses the fortunes of the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquess of Bute.Google Scholar

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11 Frederick Ozanam, (London cl892) p. 22. Costelloe invariably demanded an end to ‘excess of respectability’ and wanted real lay involvement. The Tablet, 5 July 1980. A few months earlier The Tablet, 8 March 1890, welcomed the 118 English conferences in operation.

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