It may seem absurd to Americans, but British and Westminster style political systems seem to have lives of their own. They have no organization based on logic, just like Britain's colonial administrative policies - a confusing mesh of policies and acts.
http://www.cathnews.com/news/604/24.php
Queen approves Catholic for new Kiwi GG
For the first time, the Queen has approved a Catholic for appointment to the position of Governor-General of New Zealand.
61 year old Judge Anand Satyanand, a Fijian of Indian descent, is a regular mass-goer and parishioner of St Joseph's, Mt Victoria, in Wellington.
Australia has had Catholic Governor-Generals, but this is a first for New Zealand, which has a significantly lower proportion of Catholics in its population.
"He has been active in a range of community, cultural and sporting groups, and maintains an abiding interest in international affairs and New Zealand's relationships with other countries," said Prime Minister Helen Clark. "Judge Satyanand has close ties to Asia and to the Pacific. He is of Indian descent and his parents moved to New Zealand from Fiji."
Hinting a possible controversy, the AIDS Foundation pointed out that Satyanand is a Catholic, and that the tradition of Governor-Generals accepting patronage of the AIDS Fondation - which has been followed until now - is not automatic.
Ping!
I have not been able to see any difference between the Sermon on the Mount and the Bhagavad Gita. What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavad Gita reduces to a scientific formula. It may not be a scientific book in the accepted sense of the term, but it has argued out the law of love-the law of abandon, as I would call it-in a scientific manner. The Sermon on the Mount gives the same law in wonderful language. The New Testament gave me comfort and boundless joy, as it came after the repulsion that parts of the Old had given me. Today, supposing I was deprived of the Gita and forgot all its contents but had a copy of the Sermon, I should derive the same joy from it as I do from the Gita. -- MK Gandhi.
I am not familiar with the NZ Constitution, but under the Australian Constitution the Governor General has significant reserve powers. Kerr used those reserve powers in 1975 when he dismissed the Whitlam government. This is the only time in over a century that the reserve powers have been used.