Talk:Arundel Cathedral

The negative

OK! So Catholicism was suppressed and the churches continued in use under the reformed Church of England. That was very negative to those Catholics who continued to adhere to Catholicism. But that is no reason why 500 years later every statement in this article needs to be made in a negative form.

• Why say "It wasn't a cathedral until...." instead of "It became a cathedral when...."
• "Thus, all churches and cathedrals in England were transferred to the Church of England in the period before the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829."

What is this? Were any Catholic churches transferred to the Church of England in the period between the Reformation and 1829? It is presented here as an ongoing saga, as if Catholics were building churches and cathedrals right up to 1829, and continually having them taken away.

The Act of 1829 is to be celebrated, not used as part of a negative statement about a matter that links to an event that took place hundreds of years earlier.

I have rewritten parts of this article in a way that dates the negative event without diminishing it, and removes the ridiculous negativism from the Catholic Emancipation Ac of 1829. The statement "the foundation of Roman Catholic parishes became again legal" has now been linked to the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, not to the notion of "forty years after this happened, this church was built".

The statements have been ordered chronologically.

Amandajm (talk) 03:05, 6 May 2013 (UTC)