The Pope and the Common Market
The Daily Telegraph reported that when Mr Desmond Crawley, Britain’s new Minister to the Vatican, presented his Letters of Credence to the Pope at the Papal summer palace in Castelgandolfo, the Pope praised Britain’s efforts to try to enter the Common Market. It has been evident for a number of years that the alignment of the nations of Europe in one grand economic, and eventual political union, has had the warm approval and blessing of the Vatican. From this we can judge that the Common Market, whether in its present form or in its proposed enlargement is in no way prejudicial to the Vatican’s future political and religious aims but rather the reverse. Let us beware what the Pope blesses !
Britain’s Minister at the Vatican
The appointment of a new Minister to the Vatican cannot but make us ask anew, Why should Britain have any representation at the pocket-sized State of the Vatican ? It is quite clear that the Vatican’s political power would be non-existent if it rested merely on the Pope’s temporal sovereignty over the Vatican territory. It rests rather on the Pope’s headship over the Roman Catholic Church and his blasphemous claim to be the Vicar of Christ. The less Britain has to do with ” the Man of sin and the Son of perdition ” the better for herself.
No Prosecution !
The Attorney General, after consultation with the Director of Public Prosecution, has indicated that he cannot authorise criminal proceedings over Kenneth Tynan’s controversial revue ” Oh ! Calcutta ! ” on the grounds that there was no reasonable likelihood that a prosecution would be successful. In view of the increasingly debased plays and films which are now being shown in Britain, it is alarming that the safeguards which the law once provided to prevent such shows from taking place, have been largely removed or so weakened that a successful prosecution is difficult to obtain. It is surely time that the Govern-ment restored legislation which would have the effect of curbing, for the benefit of society, productions of the type of “Oh! Calcutta!”