Reformation
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- Reformation
- Core Reason
- Henry wanted a divorce from Catherine because she was unable to give him the son he wanted
- The Pope needed to grant him it but The Pope refused
- The Holy Roman Emperor was Catherine's nephew and The Pope didn't want to cross him
- Henry used an argument from the bible, which says that it is wrong to marry his brother's widow
- Using the bible meant that God was on his side
- However Catherine also used the bible against him
- Henry wanted to marry Anne and decided to disobey The Pope
- Henry passed the Act of Supremacy, declaring the king head of the Church in England
- The Break with Rome officially split England from Rome and Henry granted his own divorce in 1532
- New Religion
- A religious change was sweeping through Europe as well
- Martin Luther, a monk, Spoke out about the wrong doings of the Catholic Church and created a new religion, Protestantism
- Protestantism thought that worship should be simple and for everyone
- Masses were simple and all prayers were said in English
- The biggest difference was that Protestants didn't believe that the bread and wine transformed into the physical Body and Blood of Christ, but only represented it
- Dissolution of the Monasteries
- This was the major change that happened throughout England
- It involved shutting down monasteries and convents due to the monks and nuns being unfaithful to Henry
- Also monks were believed to not follow the laws that a monk has to obey to
- The monasteries also had a lot of land and money, which Henry was short of at the time.
- Henry's Religion
- Henry still believed in Catholic beliefs and may have just used Protestantism as an excuse to break with Rome and shut down the monasteries
- As Henry began to die, he made England a bit more Catholic again, after changing so much
- Core Reason
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