St Augustine's, Dumbarton - Scottish Episcopal Church

A further wedge has been placed in the search for unity between RCs and other Christains in a shocking assertion that Protestants make better marmalade and jam than Catholics .Mary Kenny, writing in the forthcoming Catholic Herald says that, as an ecumenical gesture, she attended choral evensong on Remembrance Sunday in her local C of E church, St Andrew’s, Deal. So tasty was the lemon marmalade at the bunfight afterwards that she was reminded of her childhood in Ireland “where it has always been said, even among the least ecumenically minded Catholics, that the Protestant ladies make the best jams, marmalades and pickles.

This is likely to produce envy and rivalry among RC women, many of whom would like to be ordained but are told just to stay at home and make jam. The news is likely to arouse the ire of militant marmalade makers in the RC fold who will ask the Pope to get them out of this pickle.