Voices
Douglas Hyde (1911-1996) was an English political journalist and writer. Originally a communist and the news editor of the Daily Worker, he converted to Catholicism in 1948 and later published I Believed: The Autobiography of a Former British Communist. At the time he wrote “Catholic roots of the Coronation,” he was an associate editor of the London Catholic Herald.
FaithVantage Point
The coronation of a British monarch is a ceremony that at several points bears a marked resemblance to the consecration of a bishop and which, in its essence and most of its origins, is essentially Catholic.