If only it were so.....the Churches are EMPTY, even the Catholic ones....very very sad.
If I remember correctly, Princess Di was dabbling in everything but Christianity prior to her death.
What happened in England was not so much the Reformation as it was Henry VIII inflicting his will upon the people. He totally destroyed the role of charity in the country.
Before Henry's actions to secure a new wife for himself, the government played no role in caring for the poor and needy. The people did it themselves because the Church encouraged them to.
After Henry ransacked the monasteries, guess where all the poor went? To London.
By the time of Elizabeth so many poor beggars were moving to London that Parliament passed a series of poor laws - two consequences of begging were having a hole drilled through the beggar's ear and of course hanging.
No, England was a much kinder nation when the people controlled their own lives without the assistance of a monarch plying his own will.
When those first started showing up here a few decades ago, it was was the first true sign that America was slipping into becoming a dingy third world nation and starting to resemble Mexico.
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St. Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death for sheltering priests on this day in 1586. She became a Catholic because she saw the many priests and lay people who suffered for the defense of the faith in England. |
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The worst thing to happen to Christandom was the split between the Churches, what led up to it, and the mindless brutality on both sides