text: Some might say "So speaks the condescending voice of a child of Britannia,  a withered shell of an empire clinging to lost glories gained at the expense of the rest of the world, and trying to deny it owes it very existence to this country."  I, of course would not, because I recognize that most British Catholics, no doubt in response to years of oppression, are truly strong defenders of tradition and ritual and doctrine, which are the most important aspects of the church Jesus founded.