medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>The Official Roman Catholic line is that it was 1558 - which is absurd on
>any number of levels. And if it is supposed to be the death of Cardinal
>Pole, the height of hypocrisy - seeing that the Pope had secretly
>stigmatised him as a heretic.
>
>John Briggs
Gee, I can't find this "Official Roman Catholic line" anywhere. What is your
source? All I could find - after a quick look - is a multitude of statements
that the break was gradual with multitudinous causes, developments, etc.
I did find this specific statement:
"When news of the papal decision against the divorce reached England, Henry
VIII gave his assent to four anti-papal statutes passed in Parliament in the
spring of 1534, and in November the statute of the Royal Supremacy declared
the King to be Supreme Head of the English Church (without the limiting
clause of 1532), and an oath was prescribed, affirming the Pope to have no
jurisdiction in the realm of England. The actual ministry of preaching and
of the sacraments was left to the clergy, but all the powers of
ecclesiastical jurisdiction were claimed by the sovereign."
If, in 1534, the Pope was affirmed to have no jurisdiction in the realm of
England, who cared if he was a "hypocrite" anyway?
MG
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