...and Catholics in Britain today gave thanks for her long reign. Read the message from Cardinal Vincent Nichols here...and listen in to Vatican Radio here...
Prayers for Her Majesty and the singing of the National Anthem at Catholics churches across the country this morning, as she became Britain's longest-reignng monarch.
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God save the Queen should not be sung in Catholic churches.The Queen is head of the Church of
England not the Church of Rome ,which her forebears have rejected ever since the Reformation.
What absolute nonsense, memoryman. The Queen is supreme governor of the Church of England rather than head (the distinction is important) and not every sovereign has rejected "the Church of Rome" (Cf. Mary I, Charles II, James II). The Queen is recognised as the legitimate head of state of the United Kingdom (and her other realms) by the Vatican City State and by the papacy. Her coronation was organised by the Duke of Norfolk, a Catholic, and was attended by a papal legation. The "Domine salvum fac" was mandated to be sung after every Sung or High Mass before Vatican II in this kingdom. You might not sing the national anthem in Catholic churches but it is fit and proper that Her Majesty's loyal subjects do not follow your bizarre and killjoy example.
The Stuart claim to the throne is dead, and it's not something it would do any good to revive.
The Queen could have done a lot more for Christian unity, it's probably the single biggest failure of her reign. But it's a very difficult issue both theologically and in terms of human politics, and I wouldn't single out the Queen as an individual to blame for the collapse of ARCIC.
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