“ I would welcome a Catholic hangman as much”
Capitol Hill. Friday, July 26, 2019
There has
been considerable media news about it being revealed
that Boris Johnson is a Catholic—at least having been baptized
as a Catholic.
Fr. Sean Mc Manus—President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National
Caucus—has received numerous inquiries on his reaction to this news.He
has, therefore, issued the following statement:
“In 1921 the British Government came up with the ‘too-clever-by-half’ idea
to appoint a new Viceroy for Ireland who was from a famous English
Catholic family: Lord Edmund Talbot, later Fitzalan, a Howard by birth.
This was meant to conciliate Irish Republicans and Nationalists.
Sinn Fein’s classic response was: ‘a Catholic hangman would be as
welcome.’
That about sums up my reaction to Boris Johnson. As long as any English
ruler claims to rule any part of Ireland, I couldn’t care less whether
he/she is Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, atheist, or
whatever. No faith, or lack thereof, makes England’s rule of any part
of Ireland acceptable or democratic. I say ‘ England’ because one cannot
really blame Wales (despite Lloyd George) or Scotland (despite Lord
Balfour)— or, indeed, the new secretary of state for Northern
Ireland, Julian Smith, who was born in Scotland.
Furthermore, I believe in the separation of Church and State, unlike the unwritten, non-codified sectarian British constitution.”
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