Tag: England
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American Episcopate ahead of their time?
Amidst calls for another reformation in the Catholic Church, the American Episcopal Church is busy forging ahead on it’s own. The news that’s making the headlines is of course the consecration as Bishop of Canon Mary Glasspool. This is not because she’s a Woman, the presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church is Dr Katherine…
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A Poem by King Henry VIII
King Henry VIII is well known for his many wives, and for being the principal orchestrator of the Reformation in England*, some may not know that he was also a poet. The eagle’s force subdues eache byrd that flyes— What metal can resyst the, flaminge fyre? Doth not the sunne dazle the cleareste eyes, And…