Posted by Antonia
on 14/9/2009, 9:41:25, in reply to "Re: The Catholic Windsors"
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They weren't received by the Pope after their wedding. The day before their wedding they had an audience with the Pope, not a private one, but one of his regular audiences with members of the public. They stood behind barriers just like the other people in the room. Hello magazine carried pictures, as well as wedding pictures.
They are probably devout catholics who chose to marry at a site important to catholics. No different to the various devout catholics who go to Lourdes (Duchess of Kent included has volunteered to accompany groups of ill and dying people there) or other Holy sites for catholics. Catholics express their religion in different ways, theirs was the marry in a small chapel in the Vatican.
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: Lord and lady Nicholas Windsor did not marry
: in a major church at the Vatican but simply
: in a romantic and very simple chapel, the
: Chiesa Santo Stefano degli Abissini:
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: Rome is a fantastic city and this is a very
: lovely place. It is free for anyone to marry
: where he/she wants. I would not attach too
: much symbolic importance to this.
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: Yes, but there are so many other lovely
: places closer to home. Normal Catholics
: don't travel thousands of kilometers to
: marry on Papal territory and be received by
: the Pope afterwards. If you make the effort
: it's probably because you're trying to prove
: something and not just a coincidence,
: especially if you're a convert.
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