All things Boris: has it really come to this?

[Sean Hayden]

Aye, what the Dutchman said: not care a fuck, surely.

[Brian Peacock]

No fucks are cared for by Johnson indeed.

[Scot Dutchy]

Chumocracy in action. They dont care a fuck any of them.

[Scot Dutchy]

[Scot Dutchy]

[Svartalf]

Is it normal that as I was looking at this thread's title, I read it as "All things Bork"?

[Sean Hayden]

It can't be that far from normal, and it's still better than realizing you've arrived with no recollection of what happened between leaving and arriving.

[Brian Peacock]

Have I had my dinner yet?

[Scot Dutchy]

Boris Johnson’s outdone Henry VIII in having his third marriage blessed by the Catholic church

It seems like double standards when the twice-divorced prime minister can marry in church while other divorcees cannot

The prime minister’s marriage to Carrie Symonds in Westminster Cathedral has left many Catholics with a question. If the mother church of the Catholic church in England and Wales can kill the fatted calf and welcome the twice-divorced prime minister as a prodigal son, why are so many other divorcees being turned away?

People are upset by what feels like double standards. Too often it seems church leaders are willing to bend over backwards to accommodate the powerful in ways the poorest, or those without influence, are simply not offered.

While the prime minister’s colourful record on marriage presents no impediment to a cathedral wedding, there are countless of other divorcees who have been refused a church marriage unless they get an annulment. Same-sex couples, meanwhile, were told by the Vatican recently that church blessings are impossible for them because God “cannot bless sin”.

According to church rules, the prime minister and his wife, who is a Catholic, were within their rights to be married in the cathedral. They got the green light because Johnson’s earlier marriages took place outside the Catholic church and without the necessary permissions. As he is a baptised Catholic, those marriages are invalid in the church’s eyes and he was free to marry. All of this is fine if you are comfortable with the intricacies of canon law, but to outsiders it looks like Mr and Mrs Johnson found a legal loophole.

[Brian Peacock]

Meh. No body gives a shit.

[JimC]

Breaking news, shock & horror!

Wealthy and powerful people find a way to get the Catholic Church to bend the rules for them!

[Svartalf]

Boris Johnson’s outdone Henry VIII in having his third marriage blessed by the Catholic church

It seems like double standards when the twice-divorced prime minister can marry in church while other divorcees cannot

The prime minister’s marriage to Carrie Symonds in Westminster Cathedral has left many Catholics with a question. If the mother church of the Catholic church in England and Wales can kill the fatted calf and welcome the twice-divorced prime minister as a prodigal son, why are so many other divorcees being turned away?

People are upset by what feels like double standards. Too often it seems church leaders are willing to bend over backwards to accommodate the powerful in ways the poorest, or those without influence, are simply not offered.

While the prime minister’s colourful record on marriage presents no impediment to a cathedral wedding, there are countless of other divorcees who have been refused a church marriage unless they get an annulment. Same-sex couples, meanwhile, were told by the Vatican recently that church blessings are impossible for them because God “cannot bless sin”.

According to church rules, the prime minister and his wife, who is a Catholic, were within their rights to be married in the cathedral. They got the green light because Johnson’s earlier marriages took place outside the Catholic church and without the necessary permissions. As he is a baptised Catholic, those marriages are invalid in the church’s eyes and he was free to marry. All of this is fine if you are comfortable with the intricacies of canon law, but to outsiders it looks like Mr and Mrs Johnson found a legal loophole.

I do guess something is wrong... at what level was the decision to bless that union taken? If under the pope himself, I do guess some defrockings are in order, if francis himself weighed on that, he has explaining to do.

[Svartalf]

Meh. No body gives a shit.

Man, I do guess you're anxious of getting rid of him, but just giving old boris like that, it's lacking in pompousness.

[Hermit]

Breaking news, shock & horror!

Wealthy and powerful people find a way to get the Catholic Church to bend the rules for them!

[Scot Dutchy]

Chumocracy!!!