Nick Kew said:In article <[email hidden]>, "davek"
Quoted message said:I expect it's all different these days, but it used to be
that RCs were not allowed to go up.
Eh??? When and where did you hear that? In my day there
were lots of catholics. Dammit, I even left with one after
we both graduated - though alas that didn't last.
Were you at some college with a historic legacy of strange
religious rules?
A bit of research shows that Oxford was opened to dissenters
in 1854 and Cambridge in 1856. However, in 1867 Rome issued
a decree forbidding RCs from attending the universities and
this was only relaxed in 1895, but even then it was only a
concession for exceptional circumstances.
So, in relatively recent history, the ban on RCs applied
both to Oxford and Cambridge and was imposed by the RC
church authorities and not by the universities.
I suppose that the Oxford Movement and growth of Anglo-
Catholicism might have made Oxford a more comfortable and
welcoming environment for RCs in the 19th and early 20th
centuries.
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