So Terry Eagleton (who is, as the paper points out, professor of cultural theory at Manchester University) decides to violate one of the little cultural rules with which we burden our society, that one does not speak ill of the dead in that small period between their death and their burial. Not too much of a surprise that an avowed Marxist would rip into one who did so much during the downfall of that evil system of governance of course.
His case would make a little more sense if he actually knew anything about the Catholic Church, rather than the knee jerk rubbish he spouts.
The Catholic church had
lived through its own brand of flower power in the 60s, known as the
Second Vatican Council; and the time was now ripe to rein in leftist
monks, clap-happy nuns and Latin American Catholic Marxists. All of
this had been set in train by a pope – John XIII – whom the Catholic
conservatives regarded as at best wacky and at worst a Soviet agent.
Pope John XIII. 965 to 972.
Pope John XXIII 1958-1963.
Almost exactly a millennium out of touch, which appears to be all you need to know about the professor of cultural studies.
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