Charles and Camilla to Confess 'Past Sins'

FoxNews ^ | 4/8/05

[Rytwyng]

Past sins? What about the *continuing sin* of being with Camilla....?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's a tabloid world we live in, Master Jack.

[workerbee]

I was a young teenager when Charles and Diana married and I admit I was completely fascinated in all things royal for a time. But this is all too bizarre. Just find a JOP (or British equivalent) and be done with it. Who cares about this wedding? That they're going through all this pomp is unseemly.

[evets]

[Pittsburg Phil]

Boy, too bad we can't force Slick Willie and les-ball Hillary to confess their sins & crimes. Then maybe Vince Forster and who knows how many others could rest in peace.

[proxy_user]

If that's sin, I'll take virtue any day.

[Spktyr]

I thought bestiality was considered a sin by the Anglican Church....

[Grut]

I thought bestiality was considered a sin by the Anglican Church....

I believe they now approve it as leading to greater interspecies understanding. But why pick on the woman? She's past fifty and if she's not a raving beauty, so what? Have you looked at what most American women her age look like? Or men, for that matter.

[madprof98]

Apparently this is all the rage for 2nd (and subsequent) marriages in the Episcopal Church here as well--or so said a friend who is a priest in that church. I suppose it beats the fiction in the American Catholic Church of pretending that previous marriages (some of them lasting 30 or 40 years) didn't really exist.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

...Who cares... about this wedding?

truely one of those non-events for sure!

[sharktrager]

Like he's some sort of prize?

I am just glad they married too late to reproduce.

[GoLightly]

They are getting married by a JOP.

This confession, kinda important if Chaz is ever going to inherit, since part of the job includes being the head of the Church. No confession, no blessing. No blessing, the marriage wouldn't be considered valid in the eyes of the Church.

[KC Burke]

Having just spent some time in London, I have a much better understanding of what passes for journalism over there. Imagine the National Enquirer or Star Mag as setting the highest standard and you have a good picture.

Any service, civil or otherwise that is performed in general conformance to the Church of England standard would probably have a Confession of Sin portion of the liturgy. Picking it from an older style of the Book of Common Prayer is being analyzed as saying something about the couples choice of that item by the tabloids. It is a great leap or opinion.

I think that neither one is getting a bargin but it is better to marry than to burn, as it is said. I congratulate them and pity the role they were born to.

[tiredoflaundry]

even though it's tempting to hear "Chuckles" admit to past sins, I'm not going to get up early this time to watch him get married!

[Spktyr]

I've seen pictures of her when she was younger, is my point. She's never looked good. Ever.

[Nam Vet]

As a non-royal watcher, I've always wondered why the h3ll these two didn't marry each other right off. From what I understand they were hot for eachother before either of them married the first time.

Nam Vet

[nightdriver]

"Charles is to acknowledge his "manifold sins and wickedness" and pledge to be faithful after he marries his longtime lover."

Not that I give a rusty rip, but ol' Charles' pledge has been proven to be worthless.

[GoLightly]

pretending that previous marriages (some of them lasting 30 or 40 years) didn't really exist.

That's not what an annulment says or means. It's formation was flawed in some way, so the basis for it to continue to be recognized as a marriage would wrong.

[VRWCisme]

If annulments were only granted when there was an actual flaw in the marriage, then that would make sense, and you're right that that is the definition of an annulment. But how do you explain wealthy and influential church members like Ted Kennedy getting an annulment after so many years of marriage when it's most convenient? Are flaws in the original marriage easy to find to end one after a couple of decades?