A Catholic Bloodbath, I, for one, am not celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation? St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher, pray for Us, Pray for Religious Liberty and tolerance in the USA.
And don't think the term "Separation of Church and State" had everything to do with Thomas Jefferson and nothing with Judge Hugo Black...Hugo Black, was a protestant, anti-Catholic bigot, KKK member, who stopped at nothing to destroy the Catholic Church and all it's hospitals and schools.
There is a fundamental disconnect in the very premise: the emergence of the CoE had NOTHING to do with the Reformation. Even the article points out the lack of difference in theology. It was purely a political matter: the power of King vs Pope.
If you want to consider the Reformation in England, Scotland and Wales you had better look instead at folks like the Presbyterians.
The monks were imprisoned and chained to pillars - unable to lie down or relieve themselves without soiling themselves. One of Thomas More's daughter's (actually one of his wards), snuck into the jail and fed them and cleaned them. Henry wanted to know why they had not died yet and she was not allowed into the jail. They all starved to death.
When this woman was one her death bed, all of these monks appeared to her, surrounding her bed and they escorted her to heaven.
Thank you for this post!
It might have helped for the Catholic Church to refrain from trying to overthrow and kill Queen Elizabeth...
https://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-14.htm
This was...the most intense period of persecution in English history, in which overall about the same number of Catholics and Protestants died. It produced a celebrated band of martyrs: More and Fisher [Catholics]...,Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer [C of E]...Were they "men for all seasons"? Not entirely for ours. None of them defended the values we cherish - freedom of speech, pluralism and liberty of conscience. They died not for tolerance, but for truth. All had been to some extent persecutors before being persecuted.
“Burning people for heresy was an option, but it would raise a few eyebrows.”
He was likely afraid people would think he was Catholic.
Government - the biggest killer of mankind by far
How is what Henry did to English Catholics any different than what Xi is doing to Chinese Christians?
Up to 30000 French Protestants were killed in the St Bartholomews Day massacres in 1572. These were harsh times on all sides
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