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Readers question why the twice-divorced prime minister was allowed to marry at Westminster Cathedral Boris Johnson with his wife, Carrie, following their wedding at Westminster Cathedral on 29 May. Photograph: Downing Street/Getty Images Boris Johnson with his wife, Carrie, following their wedding at Westminster Cathedral on 29 May. Photograph: Downing Street/Getty Images Letters Tue 1 Jun 2021 12.48 EDT Last modified on Tue 1 Jun 2021 14.08 EDT I worked for 10 years as a Roman Catholic priest in south London and was obliged to leave the ministry when I met Clare and we decided to get married (Catholics question why Boris Johnson was able to marry in church, 30 May). Pope John Paul II refused us permission to be married in church. Is it that Boris Johnson always gets what he wants, or is it that the churchâs rules defy any rational logic, or is it perhaps both? ....
Many Catholics are stunned that the marriage of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Carrie Symonds took place at the weekend in Britain’s most important Catholic institution, Westminster Cathedral. ....
Last modified on Sun 30 May 2021 14.33 EDT Catholics, including members of the congregation at Westminster Cathedral, have questioned why the prime minister was able to be married in a Catholic church following his two previous divorces. Boris Johnson married Carrie Symonds at the cathedral in a ceremony with 30 friends and family on Saturday, planned in strict secrecy and reportedly carried out by Father Daniel Humphreys, who baptised their son Wilfred last year. Symonds, who will be taking Johnson’s name, has spoken publicly of her Catholic faith, while Johnson was baptised into Catholicism but renounced it for Anglicanism during his Eton schooldays, according to biographers. ....