[count-your-change]

I believe the basis for their conflict was that Becket wanted the clergy to be tried for any crimes committed in an ecclesiastical court and Henry II wanted them tried in a civil court. 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.

[trisham]

bump!

[incredulous joe]

“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.