THE UNITED KINGDOM SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1701

Taking into account this absurd discussion about Miss. Kelly’s Catholic membership, it is time that the British Parliament must derogate as soon as possible this preposterous so-called Settlement Act, which is in open violation with the European Convention on Human Rights and other international treaties in force in whole Europe, remembering that the first one and has been adopted by the British Parliament in 1998, so it is law of the land now in Britain, your Government should put and end to this aberration. I am persuaded that the UK must fulfil with its duties towards the European Convention of Human Rights, which forbids this kind of bigotry, it is quite ridiculous, if you take into account that for a thousand years, most of the Kings of England were Catholics till Henry VIII “The defender of the Faith” title given by Pope Leo X, thanks to his defence of Catholicism when Luther attacked the Church, He was the man who broke with Rome, just because the Pope did not accept his unlawful divorce of Queen Catherine, like many of his counsellors rejected as well, amongst them John Fisher and Thomas More who before being executed said: “I die a good subject to the King, but to God first!». More was not the first Catholic martyr, but thousands had followed him, persecutions will last for almost three centuries. The first Catholic King after Queen Elizabeth I was going to be King James II, his predecessor, Charles II took the holy communion from a Jesuit before he passed away, Their mother Queen Henrietta Marie wife of Charles I was another Catholic, and so were the majority of the oldest nobility of England (not the Cecil’s indeed), Scotland and Ireland and most commoners, which were forced to convert to Anglicanism if not they were considered traitors and paid with their lives those who did not obey. Just a question, how many Irish were murdered because their loyalty to the Catholic Church, hundreds of thousands from Elizabethan times to Queen Victoria. I would like to remind you that the Duchess of Kent, Princess Michael of Kent the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk first Peer of England, and many others are Catholics. How many brilliant intellectuals converted to Catholicism, plenty of them, and they still are going back to the old flock with just one shepherd, the Pope. England is a country, which has more Catholic worshipers than Anglicans. I am extremely upset with all this issue, thinking that all Christians must be reunited as was Pope John Paul It’s wishes in just one flock and one Church, as our Lord decided when He created our Church, appointing Saint Peter as the first Pope and head of Thy Church. HM the Queen can never be the head of any Church, because we have already a successor of Peter, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. In times of Queen Victoria, her son Alfred Duke of Edinburgh married Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, she was an Orthodox and never became an Anglican, she continue to be devoted to the Orthodox Church till her death and nobody said a word about it. So why make such differences with Catholics? I would like to have an answer. But as we can see in these comments hate to the Catholic Church is quite common amongst some ordinary people, they don’t know why, but they were taught to hate any Catholic, Irish, Spaniard, French and even English. Do they know that we are in 2007? I am afraid not at all.