Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle

My father, the non-Catholic parent of three Catholic children, had never a good word to say for the Catholic church. He knew as little about the church as the average British journalist, though he had been obliged to take instruction before he could marry my mother. It didn't help that the priest who instructed him slurred his words and stank of cheap whisky. My father thought that Catholics were rogues who broke the laws of God and man at will, then toddled off to confession, gabbled three Hail...

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