Some of my contemporaries may remember reading pamphlets by the Catholic Truth Society. I may have read some, but only one of them stands out in my mind -“THE DEVIL AT DANCES.”
It has a young man declaring that he would never marry a girl who danced THE TANGO. He had himself danced THE TANGO before turning to the path of Righteousness.
Through wars and famines and other disasters, Catholic Prelates obsessed over hemlines and other trivia. Anti-Catholics could be just as silly, for instance, crediting some disaster as God’s answer to LINE-DANCING.
In the 19th century, Dublin’s Cardinal Cullen knocked a lot of fun out of traditional Catholic life in Ireland. Cullen i is infamous for his refusal to let Thomas Bellew McManus’s body lie in Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral after it had been honoured at each stage of its journey from San Francisco.
McManus had made a fortune with his shipping business in Liverpool and had taken part in the Rising in Balingarry in 1848. He died in poverty. His funeral was arranged by the FENIANS, Cullen’s bete noire. In such stirring times Cullen could worry about Christians dancing THE POLKA.
From an even earlier time a story was passed down about the priest who vowed on the introduction of THE WALTZ that “There’ll be NO BELLY-RUBBIN’ IN MY PARISH.”
With such nonsense you might wonder how there was any procreation after the introduction of Christianity, much less THE WALTZ.
There was for a long time a story of a girl dancing in a Dublin venue who noticed that her partner had a cloven hoof, the very devil himself. I’m not lying ,but the venue was the Rotunda, a round room where centuries ago entertainments were staged for the building of one of the world’s first Lying-In Hospitals for ladies in a rotund condition.
By happy coincidence I was born in HOLLES STREET where hollering was not unknown.
Anyhow the old CTS could be extremely silly.
BUT THE NEW CTS IS NOT FUNNY. IT IS VERY DANGEROUS AND SHOULD BE STAMPED OUT.
I REFER TO CRAZY TRUCKING STUNTS.
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