More of a power struggle than anything else I think.
bump!
“It appears exemption from civil law was a great incentive to be a clergyman in name only.”
“More of a power struggle than anything else I think.”
There is a lot of very dense “legal” material available on this subject, and certainly a good many Catholics with time, energy and pointier heards than mine to take up the cause for Becket on these issues.
I’m not certain what your agenda may be, but I won’t go that road with you. Becket certainly put himself in harms way for his beliefs.
Certainly a good model for Catholic bishops, and the depths to which pro-life Christians should go for their cause, which I think is more to the point of the original post about Becket.