Only for the king's friends. Catholic institutions could be despoiled (all that political muscle doesn't work for free, you know) and Catholic families taxed into ruin.
I was referring more to the Statute of Uses, the Statute of Wills and the Statute of Enrollments, all of which were intended to curtail fraudulent use of cestui que use. As a result, ownership of land and its alienation became more predictable, which is a precursor to economic growth. Wringing cestui out of the system and reducing holdings in mortmain I would agree would disproportionately effect Catholics - who were disproportionately benefitting from fraudulent cestui que use holdings. A quarter of the real proerty in Heary VIII realm changed hands, which increased royal revenue and took land out of dead hands and put it into those willing to work toward making their fortune.
I think that is the point - while the English moved toward refining fraud out of land ownership, lands governed by those beholden to the Papacy were more concerned with doing things like persecuting heresy, i.e. enforcing the "consensus" of thought upon those like Gallileo.
The article is not saying it was fair or right, just simply where it lead to. You cannot deny that the rights of the common man were born out of the greed, capriciousness and arrogance of the aristocracy/crown and their battle for money and power.