British politicians call for end of monarch's Church of England role, freeing way for Catholic heir

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After UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Commonwealth leaders voted to change Royal succession laws to remove bar on heir to throne marrying a Catholic, British politicians are today now for an end to the requirement for the British monarch to be head of the Church of England. The report before the House of Commons today calls for any non Anglican-Catholic, Hindu, Muslim or atheist-to become allowed to become UK monarch by effectively severing the historic ties between the Crown and the Church of England.

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News: telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/8939402/Queens-role-as-head-of-Church-of-England-may-no-longer-be-appropriate.html
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I know that she was not in line for the throne, but I heard that Diana was somewhere in the process of being reconciled with the Church at the time of her death.

This makes me wonder if there are other members of the immediate royal family who may be or could be contemplating crossing the Tiber.
 
I don’t think this law will ever be changed. British politicians of various stripes have called for this allowance and even the abolition of the monarchy, but like everything else a few stories get printed and nothing ever happens.

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The whole thing is a “period piece”, like a Shaker table or a statue of a Greek god. I’m not sure why we should care.
 
I can think of another member of the Royal Family who is Catholic: Katharine, the Duchess of Kent (that’s how she wants to be addressed now, FYI). She is Lord Nicholas Windsor’s mother, and the sister-in-law of Princess Michael of Kent. The Duchess of Kent was received into the Church in 1994. I remember seeing a photo of her at the funeral of Cardinal Hume in Westminster Cathedral, London, in 1999. She represented the Queen at the Mass.
 
I think it is better to wait for the Church of England to slowly weaken, and more and more people cross the Tiber, so that the official religion of England would be Catholicism.
 
Georgia said:
I know that she was not in line for the throne, but I heard that Diana was somewhere in the process of being reconciled with the Church at the time of her death.

This makes me wonder if there are other members of the immediate royal family who may be or could be contemplating crossing the Tiber.
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Princess Diana’s mother was a very devout Catholic - she used to have a holiday home in the overwhelmingly Catholic southern part of the Western Isles, and made annual pilgrimages to Lourdes - she joined our diocesan group on several occasions.
 
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