LONDON – “Henry VIII will be spinning in his grave!” said the headline in The Daily Mail, a British tabloid.Hampton Court Palace, where the Tudor King Henry broke off ties with the papacy in ...

For the first time in 450 years, a citadel of Protestant worship in England — the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace — echoed to the sound of Roman Catholic prayers and music.

The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

Henry VIII had been a devout Catholic in his younger years. ... The Catholic Church would not allow Henry to divorce Catherine, so in 1527, he asked the Pope to annul the marriage instead.

Larger-than-life Henry VIII ruled England for 36 years (1509-1547), raging war against France and Scotland, separating from the Catholic Church, and paving the way for the constitution of England ...

- Henry was under great pressure politically from the Roman Catholic Church who were still trying to excommunicate him. - It's a clash of the two worlds, the old world order and the new world order.

In 1534, Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church, declaring himself supreme head of the Church of England. He expected his nephew, James V of Scotland, to follow suit, but James did not.

In England, on the other hand, King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in the 1530s, challenging ... Countries historically aligned with the Catholic Church, such as Spain, Portugal, ...

Henry VIII’s chapel hosts Catholic prayers for the first time in 450 years . CANTERBURY, England (RNS ... “The Roman Catholic Church will treat this as a coup,” Stockford told RNS.