King Charles at Mass
The recent funeral of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was the first Roman Catholic funeral of a member of the Royal family since the Reformation. The King, the Prince and Princess of Wales and other members of the Royal family were present at this event, during which a letter of condolence to the King from Pope Leo XIII was read by the papal nuncio.
The attendance of our professedly-Protestant Monarch at this funeral is a significant public step in the spiral of national religious decline. In 1994, the Duchess of Kent was the first member of the Royal family to join the Church of Rome in recent times and, since then, a number of her own immediate family have followed her. Her move to Romanism is reported to have been approved at the time by the late Queen. The consequences of such approval are apparent now in the King’s attendance at the abominable idolatry of a royal Roman Catholic requiem mass. Such attendance is a flagrant breach of the King’s accession and coronation vows to uphold the Protestant religion. Support for the Antichristian Church of Rome includes attendance at its services and necessarily undermines the profession of loyalty to Protestantism which King Charles has so solemnly sworn.
The late Duchess said that the firmness of Roman Catholic teaching was an important factor in drawing her into the Romanist fold. This itself was a tacit condemnation of the laxness and ambiguity of modern Anglicanism. It is sad when Rome – with all its scandals and perversions – is regarded as providing firmer moral guidance than Protestant Churches.
The current royal house came to the throne of Britain in 1714 for the sole reason of maintaining the Protestant Succession and has been kept in possession of it until now, as professedly Protestant. But the more that Rome makes inroads among some of the most influential members of our society, the worse it will be for the nation and for those precious souls ensnared by Rome’s deadly errors. And we clearly see once more how little sympathy with the principles of the Word of God and the Reformation so many of the leading figures in British society have shown over the years. “From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises and putrifying sores” (Is 1:6). AWM