Anglican Church

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mathematician said:
Um no, divorce is still quite a popular pastime here in the UK. Why you think it should have gone out of fashion at the time of the Reformation I really cannot imagine.
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Divorce was unknown, as we know it, then. But decrees of nullity were daily commonplaces.

GKC
 
GKC said:
Divorce was unknown, as we know it, then. But decrees of nullity were daily commonplaces.

GKC
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If you didn’t realise it, c59smith is engaging in the standard RC rant about there only being an Anglican Church because a lechereous heretic by the name of Henry VIII wanted a divorce, and the Pope wouldn’t give him one.

Strange how somebody who was the apple of the Pope’s eye one moment could become an irredeemable heretic the next - but that’s politics for you.
 
mathematician said:
If you didn’t realise it, c59smith is engaging in the standard RC rant about there only being an Anglican Church because a lechereous heretic by the name of Henry VIII wanted a divorce, and the Pope wouldn’t give him one.

Strange how somebody who was the apple of the Pope’s eye one moment could become an irredeemable heretic the next - but that’s politics for you.
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Oh, I’ve been in this game for a while. Yes, I know the tale of Horny Hank and his Hormones, as it is told around the campfire.

Still, history is history, complex as it is. And I often have to make the distinction for folks, many different type of folks, at that, between the concept of a divorce, ending a marrige,as we understand it, now, and a decree of nullity, declaring that no valid sacramental marriage took place, due to some impediment, in intent, form minister or matter. Most often, under the system that prevailed in the 1500s, the fault was found in the matter of the sacrament; i.e. the partipants were not able to enter into a valid sacramental marriage due to a problem in themselves, or their relationship, or other relationships. This would result in a finding of (theoretically) impediments of consanquinity, affinity, justice of public honesty, or a number of other things, requiring a decree of nullity, after the fact, or a dispensation, before the fact.

History is very complicated. Henry was in and out of Papal favor, often because of secular politics, sometimes for other reasons.

GKC
 
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