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Repugnant to the Laws of God

This Rock Volume 18, Number 4   April 2007     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   The Great Divorce: The Evil Fruits of Henry VIII’s Divorce By Christopher Check   Quick Lesson in Canon Law   Further Reading   Lady Anne Boleyn   Repugnant to the Laws of God   "Enslaved by Your Passion for a Girl"   A Philosopher with Heart By Dietrich von Hildebrand   Dietrich von Hildebrand, 1889-1977   The Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project   Should We be Indifferent to Everything but God? By Alice von Hildebrand   Noble and Ignoble Feelings   The Holy Madness of Love   Seven Principles of Cathoilc Social Teaching By Christopher Kaczor   Rich in Poverty   For Further Reading   What You Do for Them You Do for Him   Damascus Road The Other Side of the Mirror By Scott McDermott   By the Book Not by Scripture Alone By Jim Blackburn   Truth be Told They Sang All the Way to the Guillotine By Matthew E. Bunson   Classic Apologetics The Supernatural Kinship of Catholics By Rev. Paul van Kuykendall Thomson   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Preview (pdf; 3MB)    Subscribe    Permissions

After being convicted, St. Thomas More had this to say about the Act of Parliament which made Henry VIII head of the church in England:

Inasmuch, my lord, as this indictment is grounded upon an Act of Parliament directly repugnant to the laws of God and his Holy Church, the supreme government of which, or of any part thereof, may no temporal prince presume by any law to take upon him, as rightfully belonging to the See of Rome, a spiritual preeminence by the mouth of our Savior Himself, personally present upon the earth, only to St. Peter and his successors, bishops of the same See, by special prerogative guaranteed, it is therefore in law among Christian men insufficient to charge any Christian man. (Gerard Wegemer, St. Thomas More: A Portrait in Courage, 215; cf. William Roper, Lives of St. Thomas More, 45)