King Alfred — as Catholic as the pope

THERE would almost certainly be many more Anglo-Saxons in the world and the British welfare state would probably not exist, as the 800 monasteries and other charitable institutions destroyed during the “Reformation” might still be functioning. Dominic Selwood looks briefly at what Catholic England might look like today. When England broke with Rome, the English broke with each other as well.

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Mark Jaws writes:

Great article, Laura. And while it is mere speculation on the part of the author to imagine an eternally Catholic England, I always point to Germany to silence the Catholic bashers who insist that The Faith is so rifled with superstition and backwardness (they always point to Spain), that England would have never advanced as it did had it remained Catholic. Simply compare German’s Protestant North with its Catholic South. While much of the Industrial Ruhr is mixed, Bavaria, the home of Munich and BMW (Bavarian Motor Works) is solidly Catholic. I spent eight years in Germany, stretching from 1976 to 2000. Bavaria and Swabia are more folksy, more communitarian, more lively than – but just as industrious and advanced as – their Protestant counterparts.

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