Word: prescot
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Honor Where Due. However, arguments for and against canonization cross religious lines. The Archbishop was taken to task by some of the Anglican clergy for interfering in Catholic affairs. Said the Dean of Prescot at Lancashire: "The recollection and commemoration of men and women who died for genuine religious convictions will hearten not only Catholics but many others." Oxford's A. L. Rowse, a leading Elizabethan scholar and a "nonsectarian rationalist." put forward historical arguments against canonization. "The fact is," he said, "that by its bull of 1570, the papacy declared war on Elizabeth I, not only by excommunicating...