The Anglicans have the head of the Catholic Saint, Thomas More, who they acknowledge as a saint and are now going to venerate.  Do they even believe in their own religion???  Are they that confused or are they just trying to blend with Catholics?  What's up? 
For Further confusion see my next post.


United Kingdom: Will St. Thomas More’s Head Be Presented for Veneration by the Faithful?

October 3, 2025
Source: FSSPX News

Site of St. Thomas More's execution

St. Dunstan's Church in Canterbury, Kent, England, is beginning a consultation on how best to preserve the relics of St. Thomas More, announced the Anglican Diocese of Canterbury, whose Archbishop is the spiritual head of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion.
Indeed, writes Edward Pentin in the National Catholic Register, "the need to properly preserve the remains of the head of Saint Thomas More and to properly venerate this first-class relic has become all the more urgent as it continues to deteriorate in an Anglican church in Canterbury." The head of King Henry VIII's advisor was buried in a vault at St. Dunstan's Church in Canterbury.
Sir Thomas More refused to recognize King Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to swear allegiance to the king, Thomas More was convicted of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill, London, on July 6, 1535.
400 years later, in 1935, Thomas More was canonized by Pope Pius XI, on the same day as John Fischer, after both had been beatified on the same day by Pope Leo XIII in 1886. His decapitated body was buried in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London, in an unmarked grave, and his head was displayed on a pike on London Bridge to deter other followers from opposing the king.


Thomas More's daughter, Margaret Roper, secretly recovered the head and apparently preserved it in spices for the rest of her life. Upon her death in 1544, the head was buried beside her, and in 1578, her remains and her father's head were transferred to the Roper family vault at St. Dunstan's Church, where they have remained ever since.
Today, the Church of England has decided to exhume the remains and preserve them using modern techniques. The 500th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas More, in July 2035, is an opportunity to reflect on past divisions and redouble efforts towards reconciliation and Christian unity, the Anglican Diocese of Canterbury said.
Pope Pius XI presented Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of the King of England, on the day of his canonization, May 19, 1935: “Endowed with the keenest of minds and supreme versatility in every kind of knowledge, he enjoyed such esteem and favor among his fellow-citizens that he was soon able to reach the highest grades of public office.”

 But he was no less distinguished for his desire of Christian perfection and his zeal for the salvation of souls. Of this we have testimony in the ardor of his prayer, in the fervor with which he recited, whenever he could, even the Canonical Hours, in the practice of those penances by which he kept his body in subjection, and finally in the numerous and renowned accomplishments of both the spoken and the written word which he achieved for the defense of the Catholic faith and for the safeguarding of Christian morality.”

“A strong and courageous spirit, like John Fisher, when he saw that the doctrines of the Church were gravely endangered, he knew how to despise resolutely the flattery of human respect, how to resist, in accordance with his duty, the supreme head of the State when there was question of things commanded by God and the Church, and how to renounce with dignity the high office with which he was invested.”

“It was for these motives that he was imprisoned, nor could the tears of his wife and children make him swerve from the path of truth and virtue. In that terrible hour of trial he raised his eyes to heaven, and proved himself a bright example of Christian fortitude. Thus it was that he who not many years before had written a work emphasizing the duty of Catholics to defend their faith even at the cost of their lives, was seen to walk cheerful and confident from his prison to death, and thence to take his flight to the joys of eternal beatitude.”

Call me cynical, but this:
The 500th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas More, in July 2035, is an opportunity to reflect on past divisions and redouble efforts towards reconciliation and Christian unity, the Anglican Diocese of Canterbury said.
sounds like yet another move toward the One World Religion.

The Anglicans have the head of the Catholic Saint, Thomas More, who they acknowledge as a saint and are now going to venerate.  Do they even believe in their own religion???  Are they that confused or are they just trying to blend with Catholics?

They added him to their calendar in 1980.

The Anglicans looted the shrine of Saint Augustine.

But cognitive dissonance is a feature of every non-catholic religion.

In the chapter house of Canterbury Cathedral, at the back, there is a large stained glass window where are represented 21 people who are part of the history of Canterbury Cathedral. The stained glass, a gift from the Kent Freemasons (it's written at the bottom) has images of Saint Augustine, King Ethlebert, Thomas Becket, Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer. It would be like a Frenchman having a painting of Charles De Gaulle, Philippe Petain, Napoleon and Louis XVI in his living room. It makes absolutely no sense. 

https://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/chapter-house-eastern-windows

Required reading for English Catholics should be William Cobbett's History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Wales.

It was a looting operation pure and simple.

Thank you for this. I plan to buy the book. Here is an Amazon review:

John Henry Newman wrote in that "to be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant." Newman was referring to the Church Fathers but his observation could also apply to more recent - say, perhaps Reformation era - history, and one could not find a more colorful and entertaining explanation of that period than William Cobbett's "A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland."

Cobbett was a Protestant member of that church "by law established", and a conservative in the true sense of the word. [iurl=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932528466/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1932528466&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwchanco-20 wrote of him that "what he saw was not an Eden that cannot exist but rather an Inferno that can"; and like all conservatives who take mind to look into the matter, Cobbett developed a profound respect for the Catholic Church and its cultural traditions. "When Cobbett found that what he conceived to be a truth had been concealed by a trick," continues Chesterton, "his reaction was a towering passion."

This "towering passion" of Cobbett's turned into his History of the Reformation, and reading this work is essential to understanding the virulent anti-"popish" sentiment that arose and persists in our Protestant dominated culture. More importantly, it explains exactly what was lost in that strong-arm, government-led riot of thieves against the Catholic religion in England that literally crushed, murdered, and intimidated so much of its citizenry. The unintended consequences have thundered down the centuries, as what was formerly known as Christendom sinks deeper and deeper under the waves of lunacy. The men who had given us Magna Carte, habeas corpus and a thousand years of culture where wiped away, and in their place were exchanged standing armies, skyrocketing taxes, central banking, and public debt.

Cobbett, arguing with all the subtlety of a bulldog, uses a framework in which there is not one single Reformation playing out, but really a series of five Reformations:

1. The first or the "godly" Reformation of Henry, Edward and Elizabeth.
2. The second or the "thorough godly" Reformation of Cromwell and his Roundheads
3. The third or "glorious" Reformation of William and Mary.
4. The fourth Reformation or the American Revolution when America rebelled from being treated by the Crown like - well, like Catholics.
5. The fifth Reformation or the French Revolution where France followed the English template to destroy the Church, and ended up nearly destroying the whole of Europe.

What is particularly notable in this book is how some of Cobbett's passages could be pulled from today's headlines. In describing the bastardization of England's economy in the 5th year of William and Mary, he writes:

"Thus arose loans, funds, banks, bankers, banknotes, and a national debt ; things that England had never heard or dreamed of before this war [against "popery"] for preserving the Protestant religion as by law established ; things without which she had had a long and glorious career of many centuries, and had been the greatest and happiest country in the world.... the ancient philosophers, the Fathers of the Church, both Testaments, the Canons of the Church, and the decisions of Pope and Councils, all agree, all declare that to take money for the use of money is sinful. Indeed, no such thing was ever attempted to be justified until the savage Henry VIII had cast off the supremacy of the Pope.... It is certain that before the 'Reformation' there was no such thing known amongst Christians as receiving money or profit in any shape, merely for the use of money. It would be easy to show that mischiefs enormous are inseparable from such a practice, but we shall see enough of those mischiefs in the end. Suffice it for the present, that this national usury, which was now invented for the first time, arose out of the Reformation."

As I write this in 2012, it is worth pausing to look at the abuses of banking, debt and usury, and the misery it has created in the midst of plenty.

The book is organized around the following chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Henry VIII - The Divorce.
3. Henry VIII - The Royal Supremacy.
4. Henry VIII - Tyranny of Henry VIII
5. Henry VIII - The Dissolution of the Monasteries
6. Henry VIII - Confiscation of the monasteries
7. Edward VI
8. Mary
9. Mary and Elizabeth
10. Elizabeth - The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew
11. Elizabeth - Hypocrisy of Elizabeth on the death of Mary Stuart
12. The Stuarts
13. The Charges against James II and Their Refutation
14. Results of the Reformation - Triumph of William III in England and Ireland
15. Results of the Reformation - The American Revolution the First Cause of Catholic Relief
16. Impoverishment and Degradation of the People by the Reformation

I highly recommend "A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland" - it reads very quickly, and Cobbett's witty, sardonic style is very entertaining. Bishop Francis Aidan Gasquet's preface and notes are helpful in docuмenting (and correcting in a few places) Cobbett's sources - which by the way is mostly from Dr. John Lingard's "The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII."