Constantine did not found the Catholic Church, contrary to protestant propaganda. Henry did found the separate Anglican body, and gave it its own essential mission: that it was in the service of the English kingdom. That has not changed. And if Henry was a bad man, the advisers of his son, who brought in the Protestant strain into the church, were not better, and I am not disposed to estimate Elizabeth as one of the world's saints either.
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:38 am (UTC)