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   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Count Menelvagor wrote:   
   > there is one odd thing in lewis's history of 16th-c. literature, where   
   > he says that, in order to compromise between denying the claims of the   
   > Catholic Church by wriing "Roman Catholic" (never mind that tolkien   
   > used the term!) and affirming it by wriiting "Catholic," he uses the   
   > erm "Papist." he adds that it's only used dyslogistically in ulster;   
   > but is it ever used anywhere but ulster?   
      
   It certainly /has/ been used elsewhere. But I can tell you from my own   
   experience, it is a damnable problem for someone in Lewis's position,   
   which I more or less share, to refer to Roman Catholicism without   
   offending someone. There is a penumbra of Name Magic over the whole   
   business.   
      
   I have always taken Lewis's use of the word in OHEL as a convenient   
   period term.   
      
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
     "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like   
   That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not   
   because it humiliates.  You may come to think murder wrong, because it   
   is violent, and not because it is unjust."   
      -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Ball and the Cross"   
      
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