New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for December 24, 2009

Thank you, Mary, for saving the day.

Now if she could just save us from that dude in the White House, I’d have a happy Christmas.

Yeah, if only! I’d like to see that bearded heap of steaming camel-hqiz just vanish…

Careful - Marys get the axe in Blighty…

I wonder where Mary deposited Osama.

She did save us from the dude in the White House. Or at least her people did November 08. Idiot W is back in Texas, and a smart lawyer from the Windy City is keeping things in the middle and on track.

And actually, in Q V’s time Catholics were not very well treated in the UK.

“And actually, in Q V’s time Catholics were not very well treated in the UK.”

Now, now, now…this is no place for historical accuracy!

cabrobst - by midway through Victoria’s reign, there was a fair degree of tolerance toward Roman Catholics, Jews, and Dissenters of various stripes… you might be thinking of Liz rather than Vicky! And Marian devotions have always been part of Anglican theology, coming into strong prominence during the “Oxford Movement,” which had its start during Victoria’s reign.

…In my best Chief Wiggums:”Holy Mother Of God!’…

Very nice one, Pab!

@ cabrobst - thank you. I second that take on things. ;)

There are smart lawyers?

Ho ho ho!

No pols are good-power corrupts ;-> Good to see they saved Santa and the sleigh.

Are you sure? All the laws discriminating against Catholics were repealed by 1829, before “Good Queen Vic” took the throne. And in her day, in her own church, the High Church movement–Anglo-Catholicism–was very popular.

And actually, in Q V’s time Catholics were not very well treated in the UK How would you describe the current treatment of Catholics in Northern Ireland?

No one’s going to ruin Her Son’s birthday.

Susan, yes, there has always been more anti-semitism than anti-catholicism. The point isn’t that there was an absence of prejudice, but that the official stance was for tolerance.