De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

I'm struggling a lot with this article in The Catholic Herald attacking our Lord Jeremy Corbyn for receiving the blessed sacrament at a funeral. The article states: Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of disrespecting the Catholic faith after allegedly receiving Holy Communion despite not being a Catholic. The New Statesman reports he that he received Communion at the funeral of GMB union president Mary Turner, at Sacred Heart Church in Kilburn, north London. Under Canon Law, non-Catholics are forbidden from receiving Holy Communion except in extreme circumstances . The Labour Party declined to comment on whether Corbyn had received Communion, but did confirm his attendance at the funeral. They also confirmed he was not a Catholic. Clare Bowskill of the Latin Mass Society told the Telegraph: “Most Catholics would think that was disrespecting the faith quite considerably. Even Anglicans are normally told at Mass that they are welcome to come up for a bles...

"Jeremy Corbyn No More War" by Garry Knight from London, England - Jeremy Corbin. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremy_Corbyn_No_More_War.jpg#/media/File:Jeremy_Corbyn_No_More_War.jpg So yesterday I was excited to watch what I saw as the inevitable outcome of the achingly drawn-out Labour Leadership process. The contest was populated by several drones, Blairites, Brownites, (whatever!) but one candidate stood out from the outset: Jeremy Corbyn. He stood out because he struck me as a real Socialist. Someone who actually believed in Socialist ideals. Labour has been populated by Liberal elites for some years now and seemed to have betrayed its working class roots very blatantly to me. Damian Thompson deliciously articulates the issue with extraordinary literary precision here , although the dish is served with a somewhat inevitable and rather generous side-salad of schadenfreude: British liberal-Left professionals are ob...