Part One

Mark, I was thinking of the following exchange:

#1. Kag1982: “It seems like the opposition to Pope Francis is centered in the UK among the far right traditionalists and former Anglicans there. I suspect that it might be class envy. The upper-class far right British types don't like the fact that the pope is a Latin American slum priest from a working class Italian immigrant family.”

#2. Emigree: “Sounds plausible. The UK is a class society, wrecked by a certain kind of Etonians. Now the island is a rather pickly situation, isn't it?”

#3. Tridentinus: “That is nonsense, where do you get such bizarre ideas from? There is hardly any opposition to the Pope amongst Catholics in the U.K. and the number of former Anglicans is infinitesimal. How many "upper class, far right British types" do you know? I bet that Pope Francis's "working class Italian immigrant family" was a lot better off than the "working class Irish immigrant family I was brought up in."