{"id":166308,"date":"2025-11-06T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:13:08","slug":"orange-order-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-king-charles-after-he-prayed-with-pope-leo-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166308\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope Leo \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orange Order<\/a> leaders have written to Britain\u2019s King Charles<\/a> to express their \u201cdisappointment\u201d after he prayed with Pope Leo XIV<\/a> in Rome last month.<\/p>\n

In their letter, the Grand Masters of Ireland, England and Scotland called on Charles to \u201creflect on his coronation oath\u201d and the \u201cpromises he made before God\u201d when he became king.<\/p>\n

The Orange Standard, the institution\u2019s official publication, said praying with the Pope<\/a> contradicted the King\u2019s \u201csolemn commitments\u201d outlined by his coronation oath in 2023.<\/p>\n

It confirmed the letter was sent by the three senior figures within the order, Edward Stevenson from Ireland, Tim Lord of England and Scotland\u2019s Andrew Murray.<\/p>\n

Many members of the Orange family \u201cwill have been disappointed\u201d by the King\u2019s decision to pray with the pontiff in the Vatican<\/a>\u2019s Sistine Chapel on October 23rd, it said.<\/p>\n

The event was the first joint worship including a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.<\/p>\n

Although Charles has met the last three popes, and popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI travelled to Britain, their previous encounters never included joint prayers.<\/p>\n

The Orange Standard article noted Charles had shown a willingness to engage with a range of other religious leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cNonetheless, the fact remains that in his 2023 coronation oath, King Charles swore to \u2018maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law\u2019,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The publication urged Orangemen and women \u201cnot to be discouraged or deflected from our solid foundations, which are rooted in the truths of the Reformation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn October 1555, Latimer and Ridley were burned at the stake for their beliefs. Winds of change will always blow; they have done so down through the centuries and will no doubt continue. Nevertheless, it is important to remain steadfast in the Reformed faith, even in the face of opposition,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Grand Masters of Ireland, England and Scotland have jointly written privately to His Majesty to encourage him to reflect upon the solemn commitments of his coronation oath and the promises he made before God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rev Kyle Paisley, the son of the late DUP founder Ian Paisley<\/a>, last month called on Charles to cancel the engagement or to abdicate and \u201clet someone else take his place who is a true Protestant\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Paisley said the monarch should \u201cuphold the Protestant faith\u201d and in praying with the Pope is \u201cbreaking his oath\u201d and \u201cnot upholding his promise to defend a reformed faith when he mixes in that kind of way\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Protestant faith historically and theologically is a world apart from Catholicism,\u201d he told the BBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t for the life of me see how he can engage in that kind of corporate worship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange Order leaders have written to Britain\u2019s King Charles to express their \u201cdisappointment\u201d after he prayed with Pope…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,23935,13,14,6,8417,11,12,15,16,5,26870,2515,95748,23550,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-166308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-common-ground","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-king-charles","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-orange-order","21":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","22":"tag-religion-beliefs","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news","28":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115503641701535176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}