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Actually you’re right. I tend to overuse him as an example of how bad things have turned in the Church but there were more like him at the time. Henry VIII, for example, had a very strong role in the Reformation. Maybe we trads should start using him as the bad example. Along with Archbishop Cranmer. **Actually, if you read history. Henry VIII did not alter anything in the English Church. He maintained the Mass as it was then offered, in Latin. He changed nothing theologically. He took over the Church in England as both putative and real head and he seized Church property to enrich himself, but he wasn’t really a part of the “reformation” that took place under his son Edward’s regents and then his daughter Elizabeth. **
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