Posted on 10/17/2025 7:47:39 AM PDT by Winniesboy
King Charles will become the first reigning English monarch since Henry VIII split from Rome in 1534 to pray publicly with a pope during his state visit to the Holy See next week.
The king will join Pope Leo XIV at an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel during his visit with the queen to the Vatican on 22-23 October, a gesture regarded as a “significant moment” in relations between the Catholic church and the Church of England, of which Charles is supreme governor.
The royals will also visit the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls, whose connections with the English crown stretch back to Saxon rulers.
The king has agreed, that he will become “royal confrater” of the abbey. This gift of “confraternity” is a recognition of spiritual fellowship.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “This will be the first state visit, since the Reformation, where the pope and the monarch will pray together in an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel, and the first time the monarch will have attended a service in St Paul’s Outside the Walls, a church with an historic connection to the English crown.”
A Church of England spokesperson said praying with the pope and the king’s acceptance of the title “royal confrater” was against the backdrop of centuries marked by “mutual distrust” between the English state and the papacy, which softened during the development of the ecumenical movement in the early 20th century, and with Anglicans and Catholics continuing the search for unity today.
"The royal confrater title,.... is a tribute to his majesty and to his own work over many decades to find common ground between faiths and to bring people together,” the spokesperson said.
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It would be a big deal if the Pope is an actual Catholic.
Islamic prayer?
Well they are both cucks so does it really count?
Perhaps in the new prayer room of the Vatican Library.
Sigh. Considering who Charles is and what he is presiding over (the unresisted Islamic conquest of Great Britain), I don’t see much good coming out of this. But who knows? God works in mysterious ways.
Good. Maybe Charles can go to confession next and repent for the immature, self-centered and arrogant way that he has conducted himself since the 1980s.
praying for Crusades v2?
Or if Charles were an actual Anglican; but that would only be true if the Church of England were actually Christian any more.
So this is why they installed a muslim prayer room at the vatican.
That’s because the pope is “progressive” not really a catholic pope at all.
Matthew 6:5-6. those who pray to be seen by men have already received their reward. Instead, it encourages private prayer, emphasizing sincerity over showmanship.
Imagine that, following scriptures ...
So this is why they installed a muslim prayer room at the vatican.
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Not really.
Correct.
It’s just leftwingers sticking together. They’ll probably figure out a way during prayer to denounce Trump.
I was thinking a prayer to Gaia, but you might be right.
Agreed—the King should pray with Islamic clerics and skip the middle man.
Funny, because it’s the ONLY reason that he is King and not the Stuart line.
Hopefully he did it outside the UK, otherwise he’d be arrested for public praying.
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