tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post4958541012793668060..comments2023-03-24T12:24:36.008+01:00Comments on Contessa Isabella Vacani: A POPE LEADS A DANGEROUS LIFEContessa Isabella Vacanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16353575283269950315noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-45613191696719816882010-01-06T14:26:26.359+01:002010-01-06T14:26:26.359+01:00PS, a legalistic but significant detail about why ...PS, a legalistic but significant detail about why Thomas More was arrested and then executed: <br /><br />Strictly speaking, he was put on trial for refusing to acknowledge the King as the head of the "Church of England". But that wasn't why Henry killed him. The main reason was because More refused to assent to the "Act of Succession" requiring him to acknowledge Anne Bolyn as his "lawful" wife.<br /><br />And the only reason why More refused to sign the Act of Succession, was because it included a preamble denying the Pope's authority in religious affairs. If the stupid bloody inbred genetic defectives in Parliament had not included that preamble, More probably would have signed the Act of Succession in good conscience, on the legal ground that (absent the anti-papal preamble) it only concerned the secular government's power to rule upon secular affairs. More could have accepted that as a lawyer AND as a Catholic! <br /><br />And many other Catholics who refused to sign the Act of Supremacy (acknowledging Henry as "Head of the Church of England") did NOT suffer death for it! They suffered persecution, but it was not necessarily a capital offense to remain a Catholic in England. No, Fat Boy Henry killed Thomas More only because More refused to publicly acclaim Mistress Anne as the lawful Queen. It's very similar to the reasons why, today, only a handful of Chinese dissidents are singled out for imprisonment because they're not good for propaganda. Cf, the recent 11 year prison sentence given to Liu Xiaobo simply for exercising his freedom of speech; he's in prison now because he was too much in the public eye, NOT just because of what he said!John Ballnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-50185749469176809142010-01-06T13:59:09.539+01:002010-01-06T13:59:09.539+01:00A few minor corrections, subsequent to the email e...A few minor corrections, subsequent to the email exchange between you and me in which you corrected one of my corrections, but I stand by the rest of them:<br /><br />1. The (Norman-French) King of England in the time of Pope Gregory VII (late 11th century) was Henry II, not Henry IV. But it's true that Henry II of (Plantagenet) was the husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the man behind the scenes of Becket's murder.<br /><br />2. Henry II of England wasn't the one who knelt in the snow at Canossa. That was Emperor Henry IV. But Henry II of England did do public penance at Canterbury for Becket's murder, and had previously been excommunicated by Becket.<br /><br />3. Saint Thomas More was never Prime Minister, he was Chancellor. Those two offices have never been identical in England, despite their etymological similarity. There was no Prime Minister until after the so-called "Glorious Revolution" of 1688-1689. On the other hand, the originally medieval office of Chancellor survives to this day in mutated form. The Chancellor directly serves the monarch and is not subject to popular politics (other than being appointed upon recommendation of the Prime Minister), whereas the Prime Minister is simply the leader of the majority party of the House of Commons, which is essentially independent of the Crown as is symbolised by the ritual of the Crown's representative needing to ask for permission to enter the House of Commons. At any rate, the two offices are categorically different.<br /><br />4. The increasingly anti-Christian West needs more articles like this to refute the myriad libels hurled upon many Popes, especially Pope Pius XII whose reputation as an "antisemite" was first created by a disinformation campaign orchestrated by the Soviet KGB.John Ballnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-72945438804047543472010-01-04T15:12:21.445+01:002010-01-04T15:12:21.445+01:00Isabella, this is one of your most outstanding art...Isabella, this is one of your most outstanding articles. I have forwarded it to several friends. It deserves widespread circulation. Many thanks.<br /><br />Ti ringrazio moltissimo, <br /><br />Jeannejarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16895952755225231011noreply@blogger.com