By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - It will be observed, while glancing through the Catholic Internet, on any day in Lent, or any other day, that the majority of items have a political taint. I, at least, observe this, because I am myself politically tainted, and notice the same in writers to the left and right of me... There are moments when I find this strange... I have come to associate politics with modernity, in the sense that I don’t even detect it in most writings prior to the Protestant revolt, or “Reformation.