Labour Party’s Andy Burnham says Catholicism is an important part of his life and his politics — though he no longer practices the faith.
When Andrew Murray Burnham became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom this month, news stories were quick to call him the first Catholic to hold this office. It’s true that Burnham, who was born to an Irish Catholic mother in the Liverpool area, identifies himself as Catholic. That’s big news in the UK, where the established church is Protestant and until the early 1800s, Catholic were barred from any Parliamentary office, not to
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