There are proposals to remove the bar on Catholics from succeeding to the throne. A first-born daughter would also be allowed to succeed in preference to a second-born male, among other things
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I've been sceptical since the debate a couple of years ago about who was the employer of CoE priests, which came about because it's difficult to sue God: no-one seemed willing to point out the ER is Supreme Governor of the CoE, Fidelis Defensor, non-executive head of the board so-to-speak... Similarly, although it's not a clerical position I think it's fairly compelling that if a woman can be head honcho, other women should be allowed to be bishops...
Alternatively, we could [a] opt for healing the rift with Rome (half the time there's no difference anyhow*), or [b] have some nice juicy religious civil wars - we haven't had a proper one of them in this country for a couple of hundred years! Or even [a] then [b] to re-establish the su... I'll shut up now.
*In England, at any rate: further afield and in Ireland I understand it's a little different...
I also welcome these proposals but, like you, I'd rather we did away with the monarchy all together. More worrying for me was that Tony Blair felt the need to wait until he was no longer Prime Minister to convert to Catholicism. Perhaps that was down to a wish not to appear in any way religious (Alistair Campbell's 'we don't do religion' comes to mind) rather than a worry that a Catholic PM would cause great uproar. It strikes me that the greatest possible anomaly - rather than the possibility of a Catholic being Supreme Governor - is that the PM has de facto power over a number of CoE appointments which, although carried out in the name of the Sovereign, are ultimately the decision of the PM's office. I don't think there has ever been a Catholic PM, at least during his/her period in office
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I've been sceptical since the debate a couple of years ago about who was the employer of CoE priests, which came about because it's difficult to sue God: no-one seemed willing to point out the ER is Supreme Governor of the CoE, Fidelis Defensor, non-executive head of the board so-to-speak... Similarly, although it's not a clerical position I think it's fairly compelling that if a woman can be head honcho, other women should be allowed to be bishops...
Alternatively, we could [a] opt for healing the rift with Rome (half the time there's no difference anyhow*), or [b] have some nice juicy religious civil wars - we haven't had a proper one of them in this country for a couple of hundred years! Or even [a] then [b] to re-establish the su... I'll shut up now.
*In England, at any rate: further afield and in Ireland I understand it's a little different...
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