It was a Catholic plot aimed at engineering a transition to a Catholic monarchy, but Catholics constituted such a tiny proportion of the population that it had little realistic chance of success.
Even if the Houses of Parliament had been blown sky-high, the scale of the carnage would surely have provoked a backlash against Catholics by the Protestant majority.
Catholic integralism is the true seamless garment.
Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
Sunday, November 06, 2011
What if Guy Fawkes’s Gunpowder Plot had succeeded in 1605?
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