Pope Leo greets King Charles at the Vatican during the British monarch's state visit to the Holy See in October. Photograph: Vatican Media/PAOrange Order leaders have written to Britain’s King Charles to express their “disappointment” after he prayed with Pope Leo XIV in Rome last month. “Nonetheless, the fact remains that in his 2023 coronation oath, King Charles swore to ‘maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law’,” it said. Nevertheless, it is important to remain steadfast in the Reformed faith, even in the face of opposition,” it said. “The Protestant faith historically and theologically is a world apart from Catholicism,” he told the BBC.

Source: The Irish Times November 06, 2025 22:05 UTC