Archbishop of Canterbury: 'Why Royal family must stay Anglican’

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, raises concerns about David Cameron's plans to allow the monarch to marry a Roman Catholic.
Tim Walker. Edited by Richard Eden
05 Nov 2011

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has found common cause with the Left-wing agitators camping outside St Paul’s, but he is less enamoured of a radical move by David Cameron.

The Prime Minister announced at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that the Government planned to scrap “outdated” laws which ban the spouse of a Roman Catholic from taking the throne.

Now, however, Dr Williams has raised concerns that allowing a future monarch to marry a Catholic could bring into question his or her role as the supreme governor of the Church of England.

“The constitutional question, of course the tough one, is the upbringing of any heir to the throne in an Anglican environment, given that the heir to the throne will be the supreme governor, under law, of the Church of England,” says the Archbishop in an interview with Vatican Radio.  the rest