"I wish to state clearly that neither I, nor the Catholic bishops of England and Wales, have ever, at any time, said to the British government that Catholics who marry into the royal family would not be expected to raise their children in the Catholic faith," said Monsignor Marcus Stock, general secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.

During the House of Lord debate on the Act of Succession, Lord Wallace of Tankerness said he had received assurance from Monsignor Stock that the Catholic bishops take a "pastoral" approach to mixed marriages.

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