{"id":23995,"date":"2008-09-26T06:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/the-palace-could-get-a-catholi\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T06:08:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T10:08:59","slug":"the-palace-could-get-a-catholi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/the-palace-could-get-a-catholi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palace could get a Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The English Crown may be up for a change by parliament in the near future.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>One of the<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/UK%20Royal%20Standard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"220\" alt=\"UK Royal Standard.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/UK%20Royal%20Standard-thumb-200x220.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span> items being considered for reform is allowing a papist to be a monarch of England. At the moment there is a 300 law preventing such a thing to happen. &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN\">The 1688 Bill of Rights, the Act of Settlement in 1701 and Act of Union in 1707 &#8211; reinforced by the provisions of the Coronation Oath Act 1688 &#8211; effectively excluded Catholics or their spouses from the succession and provided for the Protestant succession. Neither Catholics nor those who marry them nor those born to them out of wedlock may be in the line of succession.&#8221;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN\">Imagine, a Roman Catholic as head of England. I wonder if he or she would remain as head of the CofE? Of course not&#8230;..<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><o:p><font color=\"#000000\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><font color=\"#000000\">There are other things being studied. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/sep\/25\/anglicanism.catholicism1\">Read the article<\/a>.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Crown may be up for a change by parliament in the near future.&nbsp; One of the items being considered for reform is allowing a papist to be a monarch of England. At the moment there is a 300 law preventing such a thing to happen. &#8220;The 1688 Bill of Rights, the Act of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/the-palace-could-get-a-catholi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Palace could get a Catholic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}