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Britain's King Charles and Pope Leo pray together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Thursday, October 23. This is the first joint worship by an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.

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00:00Britain's King Charles and Pope Leo pray together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Thursday, October 23.
00:07This is the first joint worship by an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.
00:15The King and Queen Camilla are on a state visit to the Vatican, marking closer ties between the Catholic Church and Anglican Communion.
00:22The royal couple who visited the Vatican earlier this year to see Pope Francis also had a private meeting with Leo Thursday morning.
00:29Buckingham Palace also announces Thursday Charles approved two British honors for the Pope,
00:35making him the papal comforter of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and conferring on him the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.
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