The abuse crisis is no excuse for anti-Catholic bigotry
The Scottish composer James MacMillan has composed a congregational Mass for the Blessed John Henry Newman which is to be featured at the venues of the Pope’s forthcoming visit to Great Britain. No surprise there. But what’s novel I think, is that MacMillan, unusually for a composer, is a bold controversialist and an unorthodox defender of British Catholicism who has started his own blog to comment on his own press interviews. MacMillan first slammed sectarianism as “Scotland’s Shame” 11 years …
