And he gave as good as he got 🪓

It is bizarre to hear how little the otherwise impressive English historian Tracy Borman seems to know about the Catholic theology of Indulgences, medieval and otherwise. It would have been better to consult the turn of the century Catholic Encyclopedia online or the Catho!ic Answers website to avoid such grotesque Tudor caricatures.

And naively, Borman not only seems to accept some obvious Henry-Church propaganda at face value, but is even very touched, she says, by Cromwell’s supposed tenderness towards the poor after the dissolution of the Monasteries, when it is far more likely the always conniving Chief Minister was by such cynical works attempting to buy off the angry populace and mobs who saw through his propaganda and who vehemently disagreed with his largely unwanted reforms which began not out of spiritual solicitude, but in the King’s lust, and his need for plunder.

As for Miraculous Relics see Acts 19:11-12:

“11 And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.”. The handkerchief and aprons would most certainly be  holy relics here.”

— Joseph Pearce: The Pillaging and Plundering of the English Monasteries

— In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg. The Dissolution of the Monasteries