Word: church
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...wives* actually went from the bed to the block, English folklore (and the cinema) have stressed the Bluebearded side of his life. But history, with a surer stress on the important, credits Henry with a stroke more momentous than any ever struck by his executioners: he severed the Church in England from the Church of Rome...
...Katherine of Aragon given him a son & heir, he might never have married Anne Boleyn since he might have had her as mistress; had Pope Clement VII consented to annul the marriage with Katherine, Henry might never have insisted that he, not the Pope, was head of the Church in England; had the royal treasury been full, he might never have confiscated the Church lands...
...principle, in essence, was that the King's will was the will of God. A sample result: Henry's legal vengeance on St. Thomas of Canterbury, who had been martyred nearly 400 years before by courtiers of Henry II for upholding a different principle (the authority of Church against King). "He was not content with plundering [Canterbury's] shrine and conveying its wealth in 26 wagons to London, but he burnt the bones of the saint, mingled the ashes with earth, and dissipated them from the mouth of a cannon...
Henry VIII could never have carried out such acts if there had not been a movement against Rome among his people: it was led by men willing to fight papacy and Church for the freedom to read and interpret the Bible as they saw fit. Henry never countenanced such radicals, and he burned some as heretics during his reign. To Henry, that was just good sense...
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 13-Vatican circles said today anathema-the most dreaded and awesome form of excommunication in the Roman Catholic Church-conceivably may be invoked against the foes of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty at tomorrow's extraordinary papal consistory...