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Boris johnson memes postbox8/23/2023 ![]() ![]() No Roman Catholic to advise the Crown in the appointment to offices in the established church. ![]() For Catholics, the relevant provision is section 18 of the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829: There are very specific limitations on a non-Anglican PM in respect of certain duties relating to the Church of England. It is against the law and contravening it carries severe penalties. How can you have a Catholic playing a role in the appointment of Church of England Bishops? Well, you can’t. However, since Brown’s time, the new convention has so far held. Prior to this convention, PMs sometimes selected the second-named candidate - Margaret Thatcher being a case in point. Two names are presented to the PM, who by convention (since the premiership of Gordon Brown) selects the first-named candidate and presents his or her name to the Queen. When a diocese (the area presided over by a bishop) falls vacant, a “vacancy-in-see committee” is set up to assess candidates. However, one of the PM’s duties is to provide advice to the Monarch on senior ecclesiastical appointments in the Church of England. It is important at the outset to mention that there is no bar on Catholics, or those of any other faith, becoming PM. None of this has any bearing on affairs of state, but the PM being a Catholic could. Not since Mick Jagger tried to argue that his marriage to Jerry Hall had never been legal has a rich and famous man so publicly dumped on his own children.Ĭatholicism and the office of prime minister ![]() Still, it can’t be pleasant for them when their father pretends that the relationship from which they sprang never existed. This does not appear to alter the legitimacy of the children. It is highly unlikely that Johnson, who was masquerading as an Anglican at the time, bothered to do that, so his two previous marriages can conveniently be declared as invalid. A Catholic’s marriage to someone who has been christened in another Christian church can only be considered sacramental if they first obtain permission from their diocesan bishop. The divorcee part is a little trickier, but it is possible that since neither of Johnson’s previous marriages took place in a Catholic church, it is as if they never happened. But times have changed, and the golden-haired joker seems to have dodged that sanction too. Paying for an abortion for your mistress, as Johnson has done on a couple of occasions, used to be punishable by excommunication. Now, you can get yourself excommunicated. (No wonder Johnson doesn’t have a problem with people not having given informed consent to Brexit…) Or that you joined another religion in your youth. Never mind that at the age of how ever many months you didn’t have a clue what was going on and most certainly did not consent. Once you’ve been dunked that’s it - you’re theirs for life. How was it possible a twice-divorced father of at least 6 children by three different mothers was able to marry in the Catholic church, which famously gets sniffy about divorcees re-marrying while their former spouses are still alive?Īpparently, you can never renounce being Catholic. When it was announced he had married Carrie Symonds in Westminster Cathedral, there was much consternation. Then at Eton he was confirmed into the Church of England. Born in New York and christened in the Catholic church on the wishes of his mother, Charlotte Johnson née Fawcett, his godmother Rachel Billington admitted he was never much of a churchgoer. Prime Minister (PM) Boris Johnson could be described as Schrödinger’s Catholic. ![]()
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