> Frater: If this is the Bill Tighe I think of (I think he was on that
EWTN "Coming Home' show which seems to exist primarily to blast the
Anglican Church about which they know little and much of that is very
partial and selective.                                                  
                         One example will show the selectiveness of the
writer (BT). Henry VIII was a King. That whole concept is so alien to
most 21c folk that anything he actually did would be suspect. Tighe says
he 'browbeat' the Convocations but that is a stretch. England had a long
history of resisting Papal meddling, pluralism and Peter's Pence (so
called because the one English Pope Adrian ordered a penny per household
from Henry II(?) after he was 'given' Ireland in the Papal bull
'Lamentabiler'. Tighe forgot to mention these little items-or the fact
that many still remembered the interdict hapless King John was put under
for 'disobedience to the Holy Father' some centuries before (Magna Carta
and all that).                                                          
                     (Plenty of examples exist to show that what Henry
VIII asked the Vatican to do in his request for an annullment of his
marriage to Katherine of Aragon (who I personally like) wouldhave been
quickly granted save for the fact that Clement VII was a weak willed man
and his city was after all under seige by the Emperor Charles V
(interestingly Charles was never disciplined for attacking the Vatican
and indeed ended up a sort of lay brother). Almost no one really
objected to Henry VIII restoration of the autocephaly of the English
Church. And so it goes.)                                                
                                                                        
                                   Bishop John Moorman's (A HISTORY OF
THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND is a much more balanced book). Henry was no
saint-far from it-but for his time and office he was more beloved than
loathed. Again the error of 'presentism' comes into play. Blessings.
GDVW+I would be interested in some of your thoughts about this former
Anglican
> historians take on the English Reformation.  Bill Tighe is now a Roman
> Catholic. http://catholica.pontifications.net/?p=959
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> Joseph Patterson+
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