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...Barracks. Most rhymes, the Opies learned, were never intended for children. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" was a 17th Century Popish prayer; "Go to bed, Tom" was once a barracks ditty. "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" possibly had a "religious background ... 'a word-picture of Our Lady's Convent' . . . the bells being the sanctus bells, the cockleshells the badges of the pilgrims, and the pretty maids the nuns...
...book is divided according to six liturgical seasons-Advent, Christmastide, Septuagesima, Lent, Paschaltide and Time after Pentecost. Advent, writes Mrs. Berger, is the time to begin to "stir up your plum puddings," which were sometimes regarded as "popish" puddings in Cromwell's 17th Century England. In Advent comes St. Nicholas' Day (Dec. 6)-the time for eating a spiced Dutch cookie called "Speculatius." St. Nicholas' Eve is the time for drinking "Bishop's Wine." (To a bottle of claret, add four inches of stick cinnamon, six cloves, simmer about five minutes and serve...
...Must TIME be so downright popish? What happened to Cardinal Mindszenty was news (but not your speculations about what might have happened...
...Among Bolsheviks, a danger-laden deviation. Lenin said: "Pacifism is ... Popish sentimentality...
...only 15, for all that they were silver. And anyway, wasn't it the Sassenach heretic King Henry VIII who made the harp Ireland's official symbol in the first place when he decided that the three crowns of ancient Ireland looked too much like a Popish tiara...