Photo: Members of Christian suffragist groups at Victoria Embankment during the Equal Political Rights Demonstration, London, 3 July 1926. Forty different organisations took part in the march from Embankment to Hyde Park, calling for women’s suffrage. From the front, members of the League of Church Militant (Anglican), the Church League for Women’s Suffrage (Anglican) and Saint Joan’s Social and Political Alliance (Catholic). (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.)

(via ‘Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism’ highlights constant Catholic thread through historical upheavals - Catholic Herald)

This is how you vote!

While respecting our freedom, God asks us to cooperate with him and gives us the ability to do so through actions, prayers and sufferings, thus awakening in us the desire “to will and to work for his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).

- Article 56 of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Communist Control

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written.

And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

– Isaac Asimov

A kneeling knight with his horse before setting off on the crusades. His servant is leaning over the turret with his masters helmet.

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Priest in procession in Holborn, June 29th 1920.

“IN placing before the public this Souvenir of what is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Anglo-Catholicism in the present century, it is believed a real requirement will be supplied.” 

One of several photos and an excerpt from a Souvenir of the First Anglo-Catholic Congress, a scan of which is available thanks to the good people at Project Canterbury, an excellent source for all things Anglican. 

“David”, c.1889, by Marcus Jean Antonin Mercié (1845-1916). French sculptor. V&A Museum, London. bronze cast

The glory of Durham Cathedral was a triumph of the Middle Ages

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1875, James Tissot