St Eanswythe

We may not know at this stage wether the severing of a local statue of a locally culted Saint was pure vandalism,anti-Christian or just people who stupidly assumed that anyone depicted with a crown in Britain had somehow set up an empire and sold darker skinned people as slaves, when in fact this princess-cum-nun lived in a time when England was hardly one entity and Donegal was possibly still more powerful than the various non-entities; a piece I read last night in 'Paul Stenhouse,A Life of Rare Wisdom, Compassion and Inspiration' (Wanda Skowronska) is appropriate:

"Many would not have picked up the new post-modern narrative at that time. Who knew where things were going in the 1960s and 70s? Nevertheless, the view that all the West is irredeemably bad because it is racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, unfair, transphobic and so on was soon to hit Western culture big-time. The wrongs of some racists were foisted on everyone; the wrongs of some colonialists were foisted on all Christian missionaries and philanthropists; and the undeniable evils of some people were cast onto all Western civilisation This ideological fanfare, this attempt to 'cancel culture, obliterating the past, tried to silence core Christian beliefs and its battering ram aimed to attack Christianity, to discard metaphysics and reject the notion of the human person as a spiritual seeker. The more the core beliefs were shouted down, the more Fr Stenhouse reminded people of them and ceaselessly recounted artistic, philosophical, scientific or religious glories of the past."