Real Religion

I couldn't help but have a giggle when I saw this. It reminded me so much of a statue we had in the main entrance when I was at school.

There stood St Thomas Aquinas in all his glory holding up his hand in benediction. More often than not this benediction usually bestowed a cigarette end or the remnants of a sandwich.

Schoolboy humor, seemingly, hadn't changed much in the twenty years prior to my scholastic endeavors. My older brothers also attended "Tommy Ackers" and the same statue had been performing the same trick even then.

I bet there isn't a statue of Cardinal Heenan [after whom the school is now named] and if there is, I'll bet, in this day and age, he will be brandishing a syringe or a knife.