u/schoolme_straying

In a different context I was reading about US political commentator Candace Owen she's been recently baptised a catholic. Her husband is Angus Farmer a genuine English aristorcrat.

She was baptised in the Brompton Oratory - it's a very beautiful church consecrated in 1884, with some people associated with it that makes me remember it is the Catholic Universal Church

There is an Anglian priest Fergus Butler-Gallie who commented thus on English Catholicism.

English Catholicism is largely a mix of descendants of the Irish diaspora, with a mix of recent Polish arrivals and Nigerian priests all praying in a 1960s concrete building,” says Butler-Gallie. “That’s not what these people want. They don’t want the actual reality of it. They want something that has all the pomp of the establishment,” but with “a valorization of Franco and Salazar kind of bubbling away under there, a kind of authoritarianism.

This pretty much describes the typical English Catholic Church that I know, rather than the exclusive, politically connected that people read aout