A CATHOLIC BOY'S LONG JOURNEY INTO ATHEISM. PART ONE
n.b. at the risk of offending feminists, I use the words ‘man’ ‘men’ and ‘mankind’ in the Biblical sense of encompassing women and men alike, for the alternative usages are cumbersome, tedious and modish. My mother was Irish, and Catholic, and she saw to it that we were brought up as Catholics; although she herself rarely went to Mass. Which was not surprising, given her endless struggle to feed and clothe such a large family, in the poverty-stricken London of the 1930s. None of the... Sign in to see full entry.