Let's solve this one real fast - Henry VIII was not Catholic. He excommunicated himself when he rejected the just authority of the Holy Father in Rome. That excommunication was later publically acknowledge by Rome. Henry VIII was a heretic k?
Dear kjvail,
Henry VIII was a Catholic monarch, a defender of the Faith, who, while Catholic, kept a mistress and tried to con the pope into permitting him to put his wife away. Only when the pope refused to go along with his little project in bigamy did the rupture occur.
Thus, this Catholic monarch, defender of the Faith, turned out not to be a very good Catholic monarch, not a very moral one. Ultimately he even turned out to be an excommunicated Catholic monarch. And then, he took his entire country out of the Catholic Church, not without some amount of violence against those who wished to remain authentically Catholic (although it required the actions of his heretic daughter, QEI, to complete the job).
So much for the superiority of monarchy.
;-)
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