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To: Kenny Bunk

I’ve done a lot of reading on this topic and I cannot agree with you. The way things were at that time, the voiding of the marriage made Mary a bastard instead of the heiress to the throne.


22 posted on 03/01/2012 5:47:00 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo
I’ve done a lot of reading on this topic and I cannot agree with you.

It is I then, who must turn in my Canon Lawyer Papers, eh? OK, then! The Rev. Al Sharpton will make a place for me on his staff. After all, it is I who straightened him and that Jesse Jackson fellow out on the difference between The Immaculate Conception and The Virgin Birth.

However, The Pope Clement VII knew his theology just as well (incredible as that may seem) as I. In offering the Queen the choice of entering a nunnery, The Pope was helping her to sorta kinda split the difference between a divorce and an annulment via a set of arcane but certainly not unknown series of protocols that allowed inconveniently married women and men to set aside their husbands or wives to take vows. The children would not be bastardized, which is not to say they would have been given boxes of bon-bons either. Everything is negotiable down at the Vatican, which why they have Canon Lawyers in the first place.

This whole mess might have been eminently avoidable until them Bible-Beatin' Bunko Artists got involved with little Edward. By then, that eminent Catholic Monarch H8 was dead and it was too late to restore Roman Catholicism as the state religion, although Queen Mary and that useless Spaniard she was married to gave it a game try.

32 posted on 03/02/2012 6:56:35 PM PST by Kenny Bunk ((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
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