HENRY VIII
"The Catholic king who drove Catholicism from England"
PART TWO
At the death of the Duke of Buckingham, a German Augustinian friar was
nailing 95 theses to the cathedral church door at Wittenberg (now a number of
historians now claim he did not). Father Martin Luther's theses were written in
Latin and, despite what some historians claim, did not stir up the faithful, as most
of them were illiterate not only in Latin but in their native German.
Luther followed up the 95 theses with three tracts: "'The Freedom of a Christian
man; .... The Appeal of the Nobility of the German Nation." and thirdly: "'The
Babylonian Captivity of the Church of God:" all published ira the summer of
1520, These three tracts were a direct challenge to the papacy and a repudiation
of Luther's priestly vows. Yet he remained in the church with no thought of
quitting it. His challenges were not only a threat to papal authority but to all the
reigning monarchs, including England's Henry Eighth Their alarm was
strengthened by the German peasent revolt in 1525 pitting peasent against peers.
resulting in one of the bloodiest revolutions in history+ The pope now
excommunicated Luther, who retailiated by burning the Papal Bull in a
Wittenburg bonfire to cheers.
Luther's books were burned in London and Henry authored a book. "The
Assertion of the Seven Sacraments" July 1521 in defense of Catholicism The
term "Roman Catholicism" was dreamt up by Lutherans who thought themselves
the true Catholic Church The Protestants to this day don't believe Henry wrote
the book, contrary to all evidence. The grateful pope bestowed the title "'Defender
of the Faith," still carried down to the present Queen Elizabeth II, titular head of
the Church of England.
The chief occupation of the royalty and the aristocracy was war so it was no
surprise that France and Spain were soon at one another's throats, Henry and
Wolsey launched "The Great Enterprise," Mary. daughter of Henry, would break
her bethrothal to the French dauphin (crown prince) and Charles V would marry
her, And both Spain and England would defeat France. In the end Charles and
Mary would reign together as king and queen of England. France, Spain and the
empire.
If you want to get real dizzy read the negotiations at the Conference of Calais
between England, France and Spain with all its intrigues and double dealings.
culminating in the death of Pope Leo X and the election of the non-Roman
Cardinal Adrian, Charles V's former tutor, the last non-ltalian pope until the
election of Polish pope John Paul II in this century.
May 23, 1522 Charles left Brussels to Calais across to Dover with his huge fleet
and army on the way back to Spain. Henry now sent a herald to Francis declaring
war on France. The herald returned in time to see the great parade through
London town lead + by the two kings. Then they played tennis and attended mass
at St, Pauls and Westminister (West Monastary) in London. Henry at Windsor
installed Charles as a Knight of the Garter. July 6. 1522 Charles. in a great array,
sailed for home, In the ensuing war with France an English army using scorched
earth tactics marched within sixty miles of Paris but had to retreat to Calais due to
winter. Surrey invaded Scotland, Charles V Italy, and the Bourbons captured
Francis I and held him prisoner for a year. In February 1525 Praet. Charles V's
ambassador to London was seized and his dispatches to Madrid were opened and
read, breaking the law of diplomatic immunity. This hoodlum action antagonized
all the governments, both friendly and those at war with England and burned
Henry so badly he never repeated it again. Luther wrote a diatribe against Henry
VIII so villifying that the king protested to the Duke of Saxony who was Luther's
protector. Sir Thomas Moore answered by getting into the gutter with Luther and
throwing the muck back at him.
Wolsey seized all the Venetian galleys in England forcing Venice out of the war,
September 1523 Pope Adrian died and Henry tried to make Wolsey pope but
failed, Cardinal Medici was elected Clement VII. Charles broke his engagement
to Mary in January 1526. France and Spain signed a peace treaty and in March
Francis was released from prison. Henry blamed Wolsey for everything that went
wrong and surprisingly the chumps believed him
City Council pagses ordinance '+
requiring "special event" permit
By EDDIE PONDS
Times Reporter
During a special city council meeting
last night, no one showed up to speak
for or against a proposed ordinance to
sell a portion of city property to Tangi-
pahoa Parish School Board.
Likewise no one spoke for or against
a special Event Permit Ordinance.
Without discussion the City Council
unanimously adopted Ordinance 368.
authorizing the sale of property to
Tangipahoa Parish School Board.
Councilman Fitzmorris' moved
successfully that the ordinance take
effect immediately
"This would allow the contractors to
start immediately." Councilman-At-
Large Julie Dufreche said.
With very little discussion the council
also adopted Ordinance Number 369
governing special event permits.
The ordinance was introduced by
Councilman Fitzmorris, "to promote
peace and harmony between the straw-
berry festival board and other boards
governing special events.'"
According to the ordinance "special
events" include the Ponchatoula Straw*
berry Festival. and all parades and
similar public events.
It states that every "person, firm,
organization, corporation, charitable
organization, association or group or
any non-profit organization or group or
any individual shall, prior to conducting
any such special event or selling any
product or services and/or prior to
selling, donating, displaying or adver-
tising any item or any service of any
kind whatsoever within the city limits of
the City of Ponchatoula shall secure a
permit from the city.
"No such permit shall be granted to
any person, firm, organization or cor-
poration that intends to sell or display or
have any other events on the public
sidewalks or on other public property
unless such person, firm. organization
or corporation is a charitable or non-
profit corporation domiciled within the
city limits of the City of Ponchatoula or
unless said such person, firm. organiza-
tion or corporation is in possession of a
valid and current itinerate vendor's
permit."
Mayor Charles Gideon said the
permit would serve to "'keep us on
notice at City Hall of what events are
being planned."
Hudson endorsed by parish Dems
Harmond Schilling, Chairman of The
Tangipahoa Parish Democratic Execu-
tive Committee announced the
endorsement of State Senator Thomas
H. Hudson in his race for Congress
from Louisiana's Sixth District. The
motion was made by Tom Anderson of
Hammond and was seconded by Jesse
McClendon of Amite, Hudson was
endorsed unanimously to succeed
Henson Moore who will vacate his seat
to run for the United States Senate.
Upon the endorsement Hudson
stated that he was proud to receive the
endorsement and appreciated the confi-
dence which the executive committee
placed in him. "I pledge to run an
aggressive campaign which is based on
the issues," said Hudson. "Louisiana
faces too many critical issues which
must be solved quickly and must avoid
the politics of the past which so often
has resulted in factual distortions and
personality attacks."
"'To be the only non-incumbent
Democrat endorsed by the United
States Chamber of Commerce and to
receive the backing of the Louisiana
Democratic State Central Committee"
and the Tangipahoa Parish Executive
Committee acids to the campaign's
growing momentum and certainly
increases our optimism.'"
Local, man booked on sexual battery
Sheriff's Report
Arrested on the sexual battery charge
was Warren Batiste, 37, 148 Campo
St., Ponchatoula. According to reports,
Batiste is accused of sexual battery on a
three-year-old girl, the daughter of an
acquaintance who lives in Ponchatoula
also. The child was examined at
Seventh Ward Hospital and evidence of
possible battery was sent to the state
crime lab for analysis, according to
arresting deputy Kelly Gideon and
detective Kerry Dangerfield
Gideon arrested the suspect at
Ponchatoula Police Station facilities
where he was being interviewed about
the situation as called in by the girl-
friend, He was arrested at about 12:05
a.m+ Saturday.
THE PONCHATOULA TIMES, FEBRUARY 27, 1986, PAGE TI
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Copyright IF/m
An. Original History by Bernard Vincent McMah00
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Henry. #iow peace was restored, decided to Steak the French-Scottish Mkance
over the violent objections of his sister Margaret Queen of Scent!and Also she was
angry at his lieutenant. Surrey. for smashing up her country: Surreu was made
Duke of Norfolk by Henry, Her husband the King Angus captured Edinburgh and
agreed to a year's truce But at the end of the truce hebega:fightintheStewarts
and Earl Lennox In 1526 he captured the 14year old JamesV. making Angus
the ruier of Scotland Margaret retaliated by appl. !ng for a di orce from him in the
papal court at home
Luthernism was now permeating England. part',cu!arly in the un:versities that
were the Catholic seminaries in the Middle Ayes Wilham Tyndale. an ex-
Cambridge seminarian converted secretly to Lutheranism and fled to Germany
when the authorities wised up to him. Here he translated he new testement into
English with margin notes showing, in his view the errors of the Catholic Church
His obiect he said was to make the common folk knowledgeable of the Bible by
reading it As most of the dear common folk ere illiterate and staved that a.'
until the Labor government built schools after Wrid War One and made English
children attend them. his p,.+gect was very arnbiti,us His book was smuggledint+
England by Lutheran merchants, much to the wrath f King Henry VIII
September 1. 1525 Luther wrote Henrt' ap(qogzmg for the book he wrote
against him. Henry waited a year and thet r<>te a long ]etter blasting Luther's
religious beliefs, particulariy his marrying ap, ex nun without dispensation
Henry's high taxes to pay for the French War. here he did not gain a foot of
ground, was causing grumbling. His extravagm/a., at court and his unpaid ioans
to his allies was depleting the treasury. Next he dreamt up the -Amicable Grant"
wherein the citizens would donate money free'.v ,'o hm Wolsey :opped it ,+ff by
suppressing 22 monastaries to pay for a new c+!]ege at Oxford {_]mversitv cal!_'d
Cardinal College. The monastaries were use,.! as ;noteN for travelers, piacu.- fr
worship, and acted as landlords to surrounding farm tenauts a very reas,uable
rents. English historians refer to them as d,_,u> ,ff imqu',tv fLti <,." vce a."d
corruption. Yet they can't explain the revoh of the people against th,'ir
suppression.
Henry VIII. having no male heir. he called hi.., six year old bastard son t(, (, urt
and in rapid succession made him: Earl of Nottingham. Duke of Richm(md and
Somerset, and finally. Lord President of the C+4mci! of the North His new
mistress was Mary Boleyn who had a sister Anne B,>th girls and their m,ther
were said to be mistresses of Henry VIII Henry said it was true of the sisters but
not of their mother.
The turks marched on Budapest and slaughtered its inhabitants and Charles V
mercenaries from his Lutheran provinces sacked Rome All the time Henry did
nothing, He started divorce proceedings against hi.-, Queen Catherine ,m the
grounds their marriage of eighteen years and their child Mary was null arrd ,.od.
(May 1527) Anne Bolevn. age nineteen, according To historims sympathetic to
'" -[-tenry refused to become his mistress until he married her As she and her si
,Mary had been ladies-in-waiting in both the French atd English royal courts
free love ,.,.:as rampant, this is unbe]ievab'+e
Protestant historians citing Catholic h;storians claim W,]sey was to blame ]
the divorce bm at the trim at Black Friars Henry' testified k:oise<' went on his kn
to beg Henry not to divorce Catherine This could be Anne Boleyn basis f()rt"
consuming hatred of Cardinal Wolsey
To marry Catherine the widow of his brother Arthur required a pa
dispensation from canon (church) law and was granted m 1503 by Pope Juliu[ Ra,
The Bibles were gotten out and the Book of Leviticus <.as cited "If a man s Pro
take hs ..... brother's w+f it i an impur..tv ..... for) he hath ucovered hs br)th T-s
nakedness, they shall be chudless" This was cnumradicted by the Book{ A
Deuteronmv: XA, hen bretern dwell together, and(0fthemdiethithoutciildr A-"
P!ease do not come to blows i: Re
to be continued 1,1
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A cookbook and a beard growing
contest are two of the events recently
developed by the committee working
on Ponchatoula's 125th Birthday Cele-
bration.
Mrs. Betty Stewart has been named
as the citizen in charge of publicity for
the event, set for September 19-27.
Night.ly historic4] extravagarzas are
planned for the nights of September 22-
27. A large parade is scheduled for
September 27.
Members of the committee headed by
Melvin Allen D.D.S. include: Mrs,
Stewart, Mrs. Jeanne Zaleski. Mrs.
Cindy Newton and Mrs+ Johanna
Daigle.
Advising the committee is a repre-
sentative of the John B. Rogers
Company, which stages "community
extravaganzas" across the nation and
produced Ponchatoula's Centennial
celebration 25 years ago.
Those who remember the Centennial
celebration remember the beard
growing contet which involved so
many area men. The Gideon admini-
stration which is heavily backing the
125th celebration, is apparently relying
on the pleasant memories of that
contest to help launch the 125th birth-
day celebration.
The official starting date for growing
beards, according to members of the
committee, will be June 19.
St. Joseph tuition
hits big families, others
Staff Report
St. Joseph School tuition has been
raised for the coming school year to $85
per student, registration fees have been
doubled to $100 per child, the book fee
has been doubled to $100 per child,
parishioners learned from their church
bulletin Sunday.
The discounts previously extended to
families with more than one child in
school have been ended and each child
must pay full fees and tuition.
Tuition has been set at $110 per child
for out-of-parish students and at $130
per child for non-Catholic students. The
school year is figured on a ten month
basis.
The church bulletin stated the
increase was instituted to pay for
teachers' salaries. Parents are
organizing a meeting at the school in
response to the announcement Sunday.
In related news. the age cutoff date
for incoming five-year-old Kindergarten
students and for incoming six-year-old
first graders was moved up to November
1 for the 1986-87 school year.
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