The Queen and the Pope on the Plane

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This is quite critical of Pope Francis. Perhaps the Priest who wrote this should take his own advice and keep quiet.

This only serves to promote the division now ongoing in the Church. Priests and Bishops and Cardinals criticising their peers and leaders.
 
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criticism is not division

most Catholics could care less about a news article about a cardinal disagreeing with the Pope.

What matters most in the Church is doctrine and not what the Pope says on an airplane. Even more insignificant to us is what the Queen of England has to say.
 
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Fr. Longenecker comes off like a big nit-picker in this article. I’m a lot more likely to tune him out than I am Pope Francis.
 
The article is not worth the waste of electrons. It only serves to stir up more division, exactly what the Church doesn’t need. Perhaps he should follow his own advice. I’m not that interested in what he thinks of his « boss ».
 
IN the mid to late 1800’s the Pope and the Bishops declared that the Immaculate Conception was official doctrine of the Church. The Protestants went haywire.

Shortly afterwards, a poor uneducated French girl received visions from the Virgin and the Virgin told her, “I am the Immaculate Conception”. The girl didn’t even know what the Immaculate Conception was. This was verification from Heaven that the Pope, the bishops, and the Holy Spirit were on the same page when it came to the newly defined doctrine. 150+ years later, people still visit the place in France where these visions occurred. People are still miraculously healed there. Many of the medical miracles are documented with medical evidence and expert opinion.

Yet, the English Monarchy still hasn’t converted. Stubborn?
 
The English Monarchy is unlikely to convert based on something a French peasant girl did. It doesn’t matter if she and the Blessed Mother singlehandedly cured all the cancer within a 500 mile radius.
Are they even allowed to convert? Isn’t there something in the Constitution that if they’re not C of E they need to step down?
 
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GiftofMercy said:
This is quite critical of Pope Francis. Perhaps the Priest who wrote this should take his own advice and keep quiet.

This only serves to promote the division now ongoing in the Church. Priests and Bishops and Cardinals criticising their peers and leaders.
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This priest’s bishop needs to quiet him. His comments are unacceptable.
 
The British Sovereign, as the head of the Church of England, has to be an Anglican. The Act of Settlement 1701 was designed to expressly forbid Catholics from the line of succession. Any person in the line of succession that converts to Catholicism is removed from the line of succession.

Prince Charles is said to be favorable to removing that restriction, but any such change would require the approval of the governments of all the Commonwealth Realms (as per the Statute of Westminster), and would still have to deal with the thorny issue of who would head the Church of England if a Catholic succeeded to throne. This isn’t an issue in the other Realms as they don’t have established churches.
 
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This priest’s bishop needs to quiet him. His comments are unacceptable.
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Yeah sure, that’s just what we need! Suppose a future pope started a commission to study the possibility of ordaining women priests. Or a commission looking into the possibility of the Church recognizing and giving its blessing to civil gay unions. Should priests who spoke out or wrote a column that was critical about this be silenced by their bishop? I for one would surely hope not! Where do you draw the line for when a bishop steps in and “quiets” said priest?
 
This is not such a case. This is merely a case of a priest not liking the pope’s style at a press conference. It is complaining for the pleasure of complaining.

Trust me if any of the things you suggest were to happen, it wouldn’t be some obscure priest somewhere raising a ruckus about it. You’d be witness to a schism in the making with a lot of noise coming from all directions and opinions.
 
Thank you, that confirms what I thought. Wasn’t sure if the law was still in force.

Kind of hard to be the head of the Church of England if you’re not a member of it.
 
One significant amendment that came out of the Perth Agreement was that being married to a Catholic does not remove someone from the line of succession. Along with moving the succession to the eldest child, male or female, are significant changes that came out of they agreement.
 
I’m really like Pope Francis. Pope Francis has done a great deal to strengthen my faith and my understanding of Jesus. If Pope Francis wants give a press conference on a plane, I think it is great.

I really like reading Fr. Longenecker’s posts too. Fr. Longenecker has some most interesting and thought provoking opinions out there. I actually agree with most of what Fr. Longenecker has to say.

Perhaps Pope Francis and Fr. Longenecker should sit down and have a drink. I think they’d find they have a lot in common 🍻.
 
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Well, that’s kind of a shame as it would have been interesting to have a devout EO married to the Queen.

But then again, I seem to recall Queen Victoria’s relatives having to convert to EO when they married Russian rulers, so I guess turnabout is fair play.
 
While I might see merit in what the author writes, I am wondering why he wrote it.
 
They need a chief rabbi to join them on this plane.
 
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The Duchess of Kent converted to Catholicism. Some of her children/grandchildren are Catholics as well. Her son Lord Nicholas Windsor, the Queen’s Cousin once removed, is associated with the Ordinariate. The Queen was, I understand, close with the late Cardinal Hume.

I’m Canadian. Our elected politicians won’t ever mention the G word (God) let alone the C word (Christ)… so it always warms my heart when our Chief of State, the Queen, mentions Christ in her annual Christmas address.
 
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