[sobieski]

I don't think that they paid the Benedictines for their abbeys, or the Franciscans, or the Trappists. Those institutions were'nt "English". And what gave the state the right to suppress the monasteries and convents? Except that they wanted to loot them. As for the Church's, the people put the money into them. THomas Moore and John Fischer found out how the new "English" church would operate; turn the property over to the state, denounce the Roman Catholic Church or be killed. Ugly history. And all over a sexual liason. It's no surprise that a church conceived in that state would come to where they are today w/ gay bishops and gay unions.