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To: RegulatorCountry
Cardinal Wolsey ordered Tyndale seized at Worms.

Wolsey had no authority at Worms, and was safely dead before Tyndale was seized. Remember that Tyndale was captured by an agent of Henry in Belgium, not Worms. Thomas More was also safely dead before Tyndale was seized - killed by Tudor for angering him by attacking his personal life. I would argue that most modern day Americans have no idea of the anger that 16th century monarchs had towards any criticism of their personal lives, and the number of people that were killed in Europe in retribution for real or imagined insults to the monarch.

2,441 posted on 04/27/2010 8:05:05 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

The point is, MarkBsnr, that the pursuit of Tyndale by the Catholic monarchy began in 1525. The pursuit of Tyndale continued despite what so many mistakenly believe to be the Protestant conversion of Henry VIII. He, himself, never embraced Protestantism. He hated Protestants, he had them killed and his Lord Chancellor Thomas More followed through in spectacular fashion for his king. The dissolution of Catholic monasteries did not begin until the year of Tyndale’s death. The Six Acts of 1539 affirmed Catholic religious belief. The country vacillated back and forth between killing Protestants and killing Catholics for over a century afterward. To attempt to claim that Tyndale was killed by state authorities acting against the plain interests of the Catholic church, established over a decade before and well before any putative “conversion” or excommunication, is not intellectually honest and is not historically accurate.


2,445 posted on 04/27/2010 8:32:11 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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