Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Catholic Church-on their own terms. Last week Hungary's Bench of Bishops received a letter-supposedly written by Mindszenty and similar to the one read during the trial-urging an agreement. At week's end, the bishops had not given their answer. But in Rome, the Pope once more sweepingly denounced Mindszenty's jailers and warned Catholics of the dangers inherent in subservience to totalitarian states...
Rumania announced sweeping new decrees empowering the government to control all religious groups; the funds and properties of all churches; and the establishment of new parishes. All five bishops of Rumania's Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church (which is affiliated with Rome) have been jailed. About 600 Uniate priests have been imprisoned...
...John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, was named a cardinal in May 1535, after Henry VIII had imprisoned him. Henry prohibited delivery of the red hat to England, declaring that instead he would send Fisher's head to Rome for the hat. Shortly thereafter, Fisher was beheaded...
...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...
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...