The Marriage of Henry VIII and the New Acts of Supremacy

[JohnTomHoc]

I’ve issued this to Catholic friends in social media, so I re-post it here:

When Henry VIII of England issued the Act of Supremacy, almost all the English subjects signed it, thinking they were just being good subjects of their king who was in a small dispute with the pope after who the king should be allowed to marry. In fact, a far greater issue involving a fundamental assault on the Kingdom of God, the Church, and on God’s authority in His vicar, was at issue.

So it is with this simple question of “equal rights in marriage”, with so many Catholics being deceived into thinking it a mere matter of civil rights, not a matter of the very sacredness of the very union which God established from the start of creation in order to reflect the bond of His Son with the Church. Marriage is a natural and redemptive reality from the very beginning of humankind, and these iniquitous projects to make fundamentally immoral sexual liaisons equal to marriage in the sight of the state is the work of Anti-Christ, as our Holy Father said while still Cardinal Archbishop of Argentina – it is a move of the devil.

Non-Catholics will not, of course, believe it; but all who are, or who profess to be, this is the moment & time to rouse from sleep, and ask for the mercy of God to overcome the unbelief which has now infecting the Body of Christ from this source.

 

[JimG]

I agree with you. Rousing Catholics from sleep may be difficult, because they have caved in to the cultural mileu on so many issues. When Catholics accepted and practiced contraception on a widespread basis, they all but made same sex marriage inevitable.

For it was contraception which first broke the link between sex and procreation, and the link between procreation and marriage. Once that link was broken, the institution of marriage began to unravel.

The results were: promiscuity, cohabitation, divorce, abortion, the devaluing of children, the breaking apart of families. Same sex marriage is merely the most recent, but not the last, manifestation of the contraceptive revolution.

If we are to ask Catholics to reject same sex marriage—and we must—we must also ask them to reject the beginning of the undoing of marriage—contraception.

The new Act of Supremacy starts with the HHS’ declaring that only it is able to decide what is and is not religion.