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To: A.A. Cunningham

"How many contemporary Catholics have been married six times and are executing two of their spouses?"

Ted Kennedy comes close in marriages and body count, I'd wager.

His many wives were mostly while in favor with Rome.....I don't defend Henry - his personal life was an abomination, rather I point out much of this was done while he was Catholic in good standing.


98 posted on 12/26/2005 8:03:55 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer
You'd lose that wager. Ted Kennedy is hardly known as "The Defender of the Faith"

His many wives were mostly while in favor with Rome.....

Incorrect. His "divorce" from wife number one, Catherine of Aragon, was the catalyst for his loss of "favor with Rome....."

99 posted on 12/26/2005 8:14:09 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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His many wives were mostly while in favor with Rome.....I don't defend Henry - his personal life was an abomination, rather I point out much of this was done while he was Catholic in good standing.

Very much incorrect. It was his desire for a divorce from wife #1 (Katharine of Aragon) and marriage to wife #2 (Anne Boleyn) which led to the break of communion with Rome. Wives 2 through 6 were not while he was "Catholic in good standing".

Interestingly, Henry's claim was that his marriage to Katharine was invalid, making her not really his Queen. She is today buried in a Church of England church, and her tomb inscription makes it perfectly clear that she was Queen of England. Kind of an odd historical contradiction, because if she was Queen of England, Henry's break with Rome was without justification.

Tolerance for all relgions is good government policy.

All religions? You mean, like, ones that practice child sacrifice?.

Tolerance for all religions isn't even possible, much less good government policy. The lack of unreasonable coercion in matters of religion may be good policy, though. Rome seems to substantially agree (cf. Vatican II Dignitatis Humanae).

And it remains an odd historical fact that the first community in North America to officially practice religious tolerance was the Roman Catholic St. Mary's Towne in Maryland, about a year before Roger Williams established Rhode Island.

104 posted on 12/26/2005 8:46:10 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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