Posted on 04/08/2005 12:49:01 PM PDT by workerbee
LONDON — Prince Charles (search) and his wife-to-be, Camilla Parker Bowles (search), will confess their sins and admit they were adulterers at a church blessing of their marriage that will be broadcast to millions of people on Saturday. Charles is to acknowledge his "manifold sins and wickedness" and pledge to be faithful after he marries his longtime lover. Charles has chosen the words of penitence for the service of blessing conducted after he weds the woman some see as the cause for the breakup of his marriage to the late Princess Diana (search). Watch FOX News Channel's special coverage of the Royal Wedding, beginning Saturday at 6 a.m. EDT. "The People's Princess" Diana died in 1997 when her car crashed in Paris a year after her bitter divorce from Charles. She had married Charles in a fairy-tale wedding in 1981, when she was 20 and he was 12 years her senior. Charles and Camilla, tying the knot after a 35-year affair that spanned each of their failed marriages, will join the congregation in reciting the strongly worded penitence from the 17th-century Book of Common Prayer, Reuters reported.
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Past sins? What about the *continuing sin* of being with Camilla....?
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.
If that's sin, I'll take virtue any day.
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.
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.
truely one of those non-events for sure!
Like he's some sort of prize?
I am just glad they married too late to reproduce.
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.
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.
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!
I've seen pictures of her when she was younger, is my point. She's never looked good. Ever.
Nam Vet
Not that I give a rusty rip, but ol' Charles' pledge has been proven to be worthless.
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.
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?
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