Nearly five centuries after King Henry VIII of England broke with the Catholic Church so he could divorce and marry again (and again and again), another divorced and remarried English king prayed with the pope on Thursday in an ecumenical service at the Sistine Chapel.
The service was conducted in the same chamber where Pope Leo XIV was recently selected as head of the Roman Catholic Church. It was the first time in hundreds of years that a pontiff and a British monarch, the nominal head of the Church of England, have publicly prayed together.
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