The Prime Minister’s Marriage
The UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has married for the third time, this time in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Westminster Cathedral. His new wife is a practising Romanist. Mr Johnson’s own position on religion seems to be highly ambivalent. Yet the fact that his latest marriage has been performed by a Roman Catholic priest further demonstrates both the easy tolerance of false religion which characterises the current generation and the lack of understanding at all levels of society of the political and spiritual dangers which Romanism ever poses to national life.
Furthermore, the fact that a divorced person was permitted to marry in the Roman Catholic Church is acknowledged, even by some Romanist sources, to represent apparent double standards, since Rome does not permit those married under its auspices to remarry after a civil divorce. According to its official position, the Roman Church theoretically acknowledges the validity of marriages between its own adherents and Protestants when a bishop’s consent has been given. Yet, in practice, Rome does not normally recognise marriages as valid except those performed by a priest. If this is followed out to its logical conclusion – as it seems to have been in this instance – Protestant marriages might be dispensed with, or conveniently ignored, in favour of Romanist marriages. Hence the Prime Minister’s latest marriage could be performed by a Romanist priest. Once more, the age-old claim of Popery to exclusive dominion over Church, family and society can be detected lying unchanged under the surface.
AWM