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CajunRick
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Posted: Thu Mar 27th, 2008 11:29 am |
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London, Mar 26, 2008 / 07:21 pm (CNA).- The British government is considering whether to abolish the 300-year-old Act of Settlement that forbids Catholics from sitting on the British throne, the Scotsman reports.
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, revealed the proposal after he unveiled the draft of the sweeping Constitutional Reform Bill yesterday.
The bill did not include any proposal to abolish what Catholics have called legalized discrimination. However, the topic was raised in the House of Commons by Labour MP Jim Devine, a Catholic.
Devine described the Act of Settlement as “legalized sectarianism which has no role in the 21st century,” calling for it to be repealed.
Straw told Devine that the proposal was complicated by the monarch’s position as head of the Church of England. However, Straw granted that the law was seen as “antiquated,” saying, “We are certainly ready to consider this.”
Abolishing the Act of Settlement would require changes to the Act of Union, which secures the role of the Protestant Presbyterian Church in Scotland. The government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, fearing nationalist influence, may be reluctant to modify the legislation that formally holds the United Kingdom together.Other measures in the draft bill include reductions in the power of the prime minister to appoint Anglican bishops.
The above article is reposted with permission from Catholic News Agency.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 01:07 am |
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Divide and conquer?
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 06:39 pm |
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Guess who'll be coming to dinner at the palace, m'love?
There goes the neighborhood: all the other palaces have "for sale signs" on their walls.
Will this mean we have to give up what our ancestors stole from our distant papist relatives, you know mum, the ones living next to the Gypsies trailer camp?
Now it really is the end of empire: one of these days the, you know, THE monarch, will be one of THEM, and no doubt will actually display the galling nerve to insist upon Britain having to finally rid herself of that good old Calvinism that helped us justifying the use of THOSE Irish savages to build our empire.
Affirmative action for the nobles?
The Pope visiting Buckingham Palace, quick, the smellin' salts, m'lady!
And of course, they'll be putting up paintings of Queen Mary and Cardinal Pole!
Well, we'll just have to do what our protestant cousins in the former 13 colonies did to make sure whoever gets to the top seat HAS to obey the laws, no matter how odious. That'll make sure no papist even wants the throne.
Rosaries and Novennas in the royal's private chapels? Oh, I'm swooooooning! Oxygen, NOW!
Well, if we get a Catholic on the throne like that awful Jack Kennedy, we can rest assure our Queen will have class, and he couldn't be any more depraved than George IV.
We'll rule again, don't know when, don't know how, don't know where ... What's left for us and where can an Englishman or Englishwoman of noble Protestant bloodlines find security in this world where even Catholics can be treated as full equals?
(Why don't you head off to the Falklands, and take that boneless wonder of an "archbishop" of Canterbury with you.)
If this passes, I hope somebody can find a direct descendant of the last Irish Catholic monarch to rule the Emerald Isle to take over that Sceptered Isle's crown. It'll be a fitting conclusion to a 300 year injustice.
Last edited on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 06:58 pm by Steven Barrett
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CajunRick
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 07:16 pm |
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Steven Barrett wrote: (Why don't you head off to the Falklands, and take that boneless wonder of an "archbishop" of Canterbury with you.)
Don't forget, there are two archbishops of Canterbury. There's a Catholic archbishop there, too.
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Mon Mar 31st, 2008 05:52 pm |
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There are indeed two archbishops in London. One has, well, more than a tenuous claim on Canterbury, a chap named Williams. The other, who's in our corner is called the Bishop of Westminster. When they (however grudgingly) gave us our freedom to practice our Faith in the Sceptred Isle, they damn sure weren't going to let us have what they stole four hundred years or so before.
So, we had to go hunting for new digs to build a cathedral. What we wound up was a patch in an overrated London slum called Westminster. It's still overrated. Maybe we can let them keep Lambeth Palace in the shadow of that horrendous ferris wheel so long as we get back our original cathedral in Canterbury and the Pope can rent out Buckingham, St. James, and I believe Kensington palaces to the royals. As a nice ecumenical gesture; with Tony Blair, of course taking on an additional new job in his retirement: landlord!
And Jack Straw will end up in future Protestant history books for laddies and lassies as the Judas who filed the bill that allowed the Pope back into the King's digs.
I always loved history.
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Posted: Tue Apr 22nd, 2008 01:10 am |
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Hooah! Then HRH could return to The Catholic Church.
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