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1. RELIGION
Henry VIII
Fiona Angelika T. Tubongbanua
Renz Rian T. Tulayba
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2. Henry VIII was King of
England from 22 April 1509
until his death in 1547.
Henry is best known for his
six marriages and his efforts
to have his first marriage
annulled.

3. The sacrament of marriage is indissoluble.
"What God Has put together; man cannot
put asunder."
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4. HENRY VIII
Henry VIll did not really plan to break away from the
Catholic Church. He was not happy with the
reformation done by some concerned persons before
and d ring his time. As a matter of fact, he earned the
title "Defender of the Faith" from the pope when he
wrote an essay against the Lutherans.
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Henry's elder brother, Arthur, married Catherine of Aragon, which
sealed the alliance between Spain and England. Arthur died four
months after the wedding.
It was agreed to have Catherine marry Henry who was then heir
to the English throne. Since the Church law forbade the marriage
of a man to his brother's widow, it was necessary to get a
dispensation (an exemption from church law) from the pope.
The pope granted the dispensation As soon as he was old
enough. Henry married Catherine but the marriage was not a
success. Five of six children died and the surviving child and heir
to the throne was a girl. Mary Tudor.

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Henry convinced himself that the failure to produce a male heir
Mary Tudor was a divine intervention.
He moved to annul his marriage on the ground that the pope should not have
granted a legal dispensation. The pope refused to grant the annulment. The
annulment would have allowed Henry to marry another woman ind produced
more heirs.
Frustrated. Henry submitted his case to the universities for their judgment and
ruling. Henry argued that Leviticus 21:14 forbade a man from marrying his brother's
widow. It turned out that most universities favored Henry and he used this as a
reason to dump Catherine and shorty maried Anne Bolyn. Then, he forced the
clergy of England to submit to him. This started his breakaway from the Catholic
Church. The final break came when in 1534 the English Parliament passed the
Supremacy Act which made Hmery the supreme head of the English Church.

7. He eventually suppressed and seized the properties of
the monasteries and sold them to rich laities to raise
funds o the royal treasury. Henry married four more
women.

8. TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH
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The two inspired account of creation in Genesis provide a firm basis for
understanding of man and woman and heir conjugal union. In the priestly account,
man is created last as the summit of creation, with dominion over all creatures. God
created man in His image... male and female He created them, and blessed them
saying "Be fertile and multiply: fill the earth and subdue it: (Gwen. 1: 276. Thus,
marriage has the social purpose of propagating the human race by sharing in God's
own creativity (CF CCC. 1604).
The second order (Yahwist) creation account focuses more specifically on the
creation of man, who is made complete only by the creation of woman. It is not good
for man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and
the two of them become one body" (Gen. 2:18, - 1). This expresses the personal
purpose of marriage as the mutual love. support, and unity of the couple (CF CCC.
1605).
Marriage in Genesis

9. Failure in Conjugal Unity/Equality
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But human history presents one long account of failing to live up to
this creation ideal of "becoming one body"
Genesis 3 sketches the origin of sin and its basic consequences in
human marriage. It is the sin. not God's plan, that changes marriage
from conjugal union of equal partners into mutial accusations and
domination of one by the other, "God said to the woman: Your urge
shall be for your husband, and he shall be your master" (Gn. 3. 16.
Thus, we hope the start of the sad history of fidelity, adultery. divorce.
broken families. and all kinds of sexual disorders that destroy human
dignity (cf CCC, 1606-8).

10. Marriage in God's Redemptive
Plan
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God,however, ever faithful to his covenant of love. included marriage
and family in His redemptive plan. The Old Testament prophets. by
using marriage as a symbol of God's covenant with His Chosen
People. had already pictured marriage as a covenant which should
imitate God's own fidelity (Hos. 2:219. You must not break with the
wife of your youth.
"For I hate divorce, says the Lord. the God of Israel (Mal 2:15f). But it
was only through Jesus Christ that the
"covenant of human love," symbol of God's love for His people in
creation, could be raised to become the sacrament of the new
covenant of Christ's redemptive love with His people the Church.

11. Life's Response
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Henry's intention to ensure the succession was thwarted by his
failure to produce a son by the arranged marriage to his brother's
widow Catherine of Aragon. His move to annul said marriage through
dispensation of the rope with the intention to marry another woman o
produce an heir to the throne was unacceptable and against
Church's teaching.
The refusal of the pope annul Henry's marriage was based not on the
previous wrong dispensation granted by the pope but on his wrong
intention to produce an heir through another woman, not his wife.

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