With all the recent fraternizing with the Vatican, it does beg the question, is Britain turning Catholic? The UK is turning to the Vatican on issues like the economy and overseas medical aid. According to the UK Telegraph, Gordon Brown is about to visit Pope Benedict XVI for talks on the recession. Most recently, the Catholic Church advised workers hit by the recession to pray to the patron saint of bankers, Saint Matthew.
It is disturbing that the UK is turning more towards the Church than sound public policy to unravel its unholy economic and social mess. Everybody get down on your knees and pray to Dawkins and Hitchens that it isn’t so…