To: american colleen
Isn't this a matter of who reported on the incident? I seem to recall reading the account of 'someone who was there' and TB only received a papal blessing.
The media here (including church media) were unanimous that the Prime Minister had received Communion, and I did not hear of any contradiction from the Vatican; which rather implies that he did receive.
27 posted on
08/18/2004 8:39:19 AM PDT by
tjwmason
(Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
To: tjwmason; american colleen; sandyeggo
FWIW
The Guardian Friday April 18, 2003
Tony Blair, while still a member of the Church of England, regularly attends mass with his family, who are all practising Catholics. In 1996, however, he was warned off receiving communion in a letter by the late Cardinal Basil Hume.
Saying that he had not realised his behaviour might cause offence, Mr Blair promised not to do so again, nevertheless adding: "I wonder what Jesus would have made of it?"
The prime minister and his family met the Pope at the Vatican during an official visit to Rome last month, and although he received a blessing - the first British prime minister to do so - he did not receive communion.
FReegards.
30 posted on
08/18/2004 8:47:51 AM PDT by
GirlShortstop
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