I WAS shocked to read the cruel condemnation in Charles Kingsley's letters to Cardinal Newman. Talk about anti-Catholicism.
Then there was poor Gerard Manley Hopkins, who also was an Anglican who converted to Roman Catholicism. Corresponding to his family about his intended visit, he promised he wouldn't try to convert his sister...
There was so much bitterness and suspicion after the Reformation, which severed Roman Catholicism and the Church of England, some of it justified because of violent dispute and the need to maintain national unity..
I praise the Tractarians for beginning, however controversially, to bring the two sides closer and friendly in the late 19th and early 20th century. I understand the earlier difficulties when religion had to be intact to hold England together and ward off saboteurs, spiritual and physical.
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