By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - In my historical imagination, the line that marks the English Reformation slices right through Saint Thomas More’s neck… He wasn’t merely defending the Catholic doctrine on marriage, against a willful king who found it inconvenient. He had a clear view of circumstances far beyond this… Light and witty as he could be, and a magnificent controversialist, he didn’t lay down his life in order to clinch a debating point… In his bowels, he realized that the whole order of Catholic Christendom was at stake. Moreover, he was in a reasonable position to foresee what would happen. For on several fronts (Luther articulating only one) that order was under attack.