THE P RTAL
April 2015
Page 3
Portal Editorial
Will Burton looks at the Catholic Bloggers
T
here are many
Catholic Bloggers. Fr
Ed Tomlinson is one of
my favourites. Recently
he has tackled a couple of
“hot” subjects. The Royal
tombs in some of our
ancient cathedrals caught
his attention; King Henry
IV’s tomb in Worcester
Cathedral for one. He
might have mentioned
Katharine of Aragon in Peterborough Cathedral, but
he did not. What he did was to compare the beautiful
ones with the ugly one for Richard III in Leicester
Cathedral.
Fr Ed set me thinking. Why is it, I wonder, that we
moderns prefer the ugly to the beautiful? This seems
to be so, not just in royal tombs, but in many forms of
‘modern art’ from paintings to music. As Fr Ed points
out, the tomb prepared for King Richard III is spartan
in the extreme.
Earlier, Fr Ed had provoked some response with
a piece about tolerance. Referring to the attack on
Nigel Farage and his family while having lunch, Fr
Ed wrote, “The episode left a bad taste in my mouth
and it has nothing to do with the political leanings
of Farage or his detractors. (Readers of this blog will
know I feel disillusioned with all parties at present
due to none valuing my Catholic faith).”
No, what troubled me was the protest itself, because
it smacks of a growing intolerance one detects
within modern society, where healthy respect for
one’s opponent in life has diminished. It is as if we
no longer value tolerance - which is deeply ironic,
given how that very word is bandied about by the
new intolerants - those upholding the State religion
of secular political corre 7F