{"id":83732,"date":"2026-06-18T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83732"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:16:55","slug":"nearly-500-years-after-henry-viii-split-from-rome-will-andy-burnham-be-the-first-openly-catholic-pm-to-enter-downing-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/nearly-500-years-after-henry-viii-split-from-rome-will-andy-burnham-be-the-first-openly-catholic-pm-to-enter-downing-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 500 Years After Henry VIII Split From Rome, Will Andy Burnham Be The First Openly Catholic PM To Enter Downing Street?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/06\/17\/14\/109407355-15907025-image-m-48_1781703996539.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-e7d7f2a0-6a3b-11f1-acca-1770f51f06b7\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/andy-burnham\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Andy Burnham<\/a><\/span>\u00a0could be poised to be the first prime minister to enter\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-e7f51790-6a3b-11f1-acca-1770f51f06b7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/downing-street\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Downing Street<\/a><\/span>\u00a0with an openly Catholic faith &#8211; nearly 500 years after Henry VIII split from Rome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Greater Manchester mayor is currently contesting the Makerfield by-election with a view to returning to Westminster to oust\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-e7cef1f0-6a3b-11f1-acca-1770f51f06b7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/keir-starmer\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Keir Starmer<\/a><\/span> from office.\u00a0If he is successful in his bid to replace Sir Keir as PM, the 56-year-old&#8217;s entry into No10 would raise some constitutional challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid): Andy Burnham\u00a0could be poised to be the first prime minister to enter\u00a0Downing Street\u00a0with an openly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83733,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83732\/revisions\/83733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}