Re: Fischer the recusant

On Jan 27, 12:13 pm, "Andrew B." <bull...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

According to wikipedia: "On the last evening of his life he was
received into the Roman Catholic Church, though the extent to which he
was fully conscious or committed, and with whom the idea originated,
is unclear." I also have a history book which suggests that he
converted on his deathbed.

Sounds all rather hazy and unverifiable. In any event, whether a
given king did or did not convert on his deathbed is not at all
sufficient to establish that they _all_ did, which was Mr. O'Brien's
original claim. That claim requires only one exception to be refuted.
There are many exceptions.

Re Henry VIII - didn't he regard himself as an "English Catholic"?

As Mr. Walker pointed out earlier, it is doubtful that the Pope
agreed.

I agree that the claim that all English monarchs were Catholic is
absurd.

Quite. Mr. O'Brien later qualified this to mean only "non-Hanoverian
claimants," but even this is not true. And to exclude the Hanoverians
(or as they are now called, the Windsors) means tossing out every
English monarch from 1714 on.
.

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