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Thursday 27 March 2008

HRH Queen Scelata?

I am so happy.... should anything untoward happen to Himself, I would be free to pursue William or Harry.
In all seriousness, I understand that laws are complicated business, (because lawyers and law-makers make them complicated :oP) but how foolish that this has not been abrogated years ago, and how silly that any would oppose such an abrogation now.
IMO, the, (for now, remote) possibility of a Catholic becoming the titular head of the Anglican church is a point in its FAVOR: all those English clerics swearing fealty to someone who professes the primacy of Peter -- think of it the way you think of some boxing bouts, mate, as "title consolidation."
And the Polish nationals who are causing trouble in English RC circles with their embarrassing devotion and insistence on actually practicing, ("not the done thing?") could be given all those lovely empty, (poor Miss Widdecombe seems not to have checked the patient's vitals lately, surely the knell was sounded long ago,) C of E structures.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1&xml=/news/2008/03/27/ncatholic127.xml

Gordon Brown is to consider abolishing the Act that prevents Roman Catholics marrying into the Royal Family or becoming king or queen, in a move that could lead to the disestablishment of the Church of England.
The Government signalled that it would look at abolishing the 307-year-old Act of Settlement because it is "antiquated" and discriminates against a section of society...
Under the 1701 Act, monarchs are forbidden to become or marry Catholics...
One of the main stumbling blocks to repealing all parts of the Act is that it could in theory mean a Catholic could become head of the Anglican Church....
John Gummer, the Tory MP who proposed a Commons Bill to reform the Act of Succession, added: "The Church of England is in the ridiculous position where it can be headed by a Mormon but not a Catholic, the largest church in Christendom.
"It does seem very odd that we believe in nondiscrimination about anything else but we don't believe that it is sensible as far as Catholics are concerned."
However Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative MP and leading Catholic, said: "This proposal is a can of worms. It won't protect the position of the established Church. If we repeal the Act of Settlement it will sound the death knell of the established Church.
"The Monarch is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England - therefore the Monarch must be an Anglican and defender of the Anglican faith. We need to step carefully and think what the downsides might be [of any change]."

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