Why Did Henry VIII Start His Own Church?
Before Henry VIII broke with Rome, religion was central to life in England. Most people belonged to the Western Catholic Church, which connected England to the Pope and to Catholic countries across Western Europe. To understand the break, we must distinguish the Pope’s religious authority from the king’s political authority and ask why that relationship changed.
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