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1. Is this really worth reporting? Does anyone care? Your editor missed a great headline for a Catholic news service: "Autumn Leaves"

   Posted By: Tony Robertson

2. "It profits nothing to gain the whole world but lose your soul" - but for England?

   Posted By: Michael Bernard

3. Jesus was right; "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world, yet suffer the loss of his soul?"
   She dumped Jesus for old horny Henry VIII on the highly unlikely event that she would have a shot to be 'Queen'. Wow! now THAT'S what I call pathetic in the first degree!

   Posted By: stan

4. It sounds as though Autumn Kelly is fulfilling the requirements of Bernard Lonergan's Theory of Knowledge: she is attentive to the constitutional role of royal family members. Being intelligent she has recognised her role as a responsible in-law, and she has made a judgment that is both responsible and intuitive. Surely the degrees of separation between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church lie in human misunderstanding and conflict on the level of Church Hierarchy alone.

   Posted By: Trish Martin

5. We are told by the NewChurch set that all this does not matter anymore. The fact that saints and others died in defence of Catholicism is now deemed irrelevant. Any can receive Holy Communion, we should not take stands, essentially, it is all over.
   Scratch a few Anglicans hard enough however, and you will discover that they really do not share our "new found" ecumenism, and that they really do contemptuously believe that we are still "The Roman Mission".

   Posted By: Brent Egan

6. Well,hopefully Peter Philips will now come out of the shadows and perform Royal service and let us learn more about this talented and bright young man.
   
   Canada will be proud of her Gatscomb resident I would think.

   Posted By: Peter Dickinson-Starkey

7. Very disappointed! I can understand two people being in love, but one of Mr. Phillips' late relatives gave up a throne for the one he loved. Even that I can understand.
   This move on Ms. Kelly's part effectively makes her an apostate. If she is prepared to give up he Catholic faith, what will be next? Stay tuned!

   Posted By:  paul pearce

8. To renounce the Catholic Faith is, objectively speaking, the worse thing we could do. It is rejection of Jesus Christ and the teachings He embodies, and the mystical body of which He is the Head. If we wish to follow the Head as part of His body, we must reamin united to the body as St Augustine taught. This is the promise. The only thing stopping us from salvation is ourselves if we freely choose to separate through apostasy.
   I wouldn't count on various theories to hold one in good stead after death.

   Posted By: Michael Webb

9. Brent, if you are so scornful of Anglicans to think they honestly believe we are all "papists" and about furthering the interests of Rome, why do you sing with them in a Catholic cathedral's choir? Now, that sounds odd.
   
   Several other contributors here need to take a couple of Bex and have a good lie down. I'm no lover of the British Royal Family and personally I think Ms Kelly has made the wrong decision, but to suggest she is eternally damned...get over it!

   Posted By: tony davis

10. Mr Phillips looks mighty chuffed with himself. I guess he hasn't considered the fact that he only has one chance in a hundred-thousand of ever becoming king, and then only after suffering the trauma of the early deaths of a dozen of his close relatives. Nor the possibility that his fiance wants a non-Catholic marriage to make it simpler in case she one day tires of him and wants to spend his money on a younger and more handsome man.
    
    But then we probably shouldn't blame her too much, blame rather those Catholic "teachers" who probably taught her that "it doesn't matter what religion you are".

    Posted By: Ronk

11. Too bad the European courts are too busy pushing their twisted version of "Rights" and "non discrimination" involving telling two elderly sisters that their property will be taxed 40% because they refuse to become lesbians, to notice the obvious biggest piece of discriminatory legislation in Europe: No one can become monarch of England (nor of Australia! though our anti-discrimination bodies aren't worried) if he becomes or marries a Catholic.
    
    They're free to marry a Moslem, a Hindu (not unlikely given their proportions in England's younger generation) a Marxist, a Maoist, an anarchist - all no problem. But marry a Catholic and you're out of the succession.
    Even the great "reformer" Tony Blair refused to fix it - too busy forcing Catholic adoption agencies to give babies to sodomisers.

    Posted By: Ronk

12. St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More walked to the Tower chopping block with their heads held high. Ms. Kelly's parents are thrilled? With what? When she faces her Lord in Eternity, what will she say? "Yeah, we lived in sin together for a while while we were engaged and I dumped over the Church You established - but who cares? It's no big deal! It's almost the same thing!"
    
    Lord have mercy.... the children today are clueless... Was this woman ever properly catechized? Does she have ANY idea what she's walking away from?
    
    
    .... pathetic....

    Posted By: Lisa Alekna, MI

13. Isn't that special??? She renounces her Catholic Faith on the remote chance she could become Queen of England.
    
    Oh, wait, this the UK. The UK doesn't stand for anything except impending Sharia.

    Posted By: Thomas Carney

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