[CBFF] CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Roper - SentUsing GoogleToolbar

[Phil DeNomme]

The first step is acceptance.... LOL  ;)

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Sorry.  I'm such a moron.

Tom S.

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> Was he a Bear fan?
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> > CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William
> Roper<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13183a.htm>
> >
> > William Roper
> >
> > Biographer of St. Thomas More
> <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm>,
> > born 1496; died 4 January, 1578. Both his father and
> > mother<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11478c.htm>belonged to
> > distinguished legal
> > families <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05782a.htm>. He was
> > educated<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05295b.htm>at one of the
> > English <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01505x.htm>
> > universities<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15188a.htm>,
> > and received his father's
> > <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11478c.htm>office of clerk of the
> > pleas in the Court of King's Bench. He held this post
> > till shortly before his death. When he was about twenty-three he
> seems to
> > have been taken into Sir Thomas
> > More's<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm>household, and he
> > married Margaret, Sir
> > Thomas's <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm> eldest
> daughter, in
> > 1521. Erasmus <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05510b.htm> who saw
> much of
> > the More <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm>
> > family<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05782a.htm>describes him as a
> > young man "who is
> > wealthy <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15571a.htm>, of excellent
> and
> > modest character <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03584b.htm> and not
> > unacquainted with literature". He became fascinated, however, by the
> > Lutheran <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09438b.htm>
> > doctrine<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05075b.htm>of
> > justification <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08573a.htm> by
> > faith<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm>,
> > and professed his heresy <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07256b.htm>
> so
> > openly as to be summoned before
> > Wolsey<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15685a.htm>.
> > Sir Thomas frequently reasoned with his son-in-law: "Meg", he said to
> his
> > daughter, "I have borne a long
> > time<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14726a.htm>with thy husband; I
> > have reasoned and argued with him in these points of
> > religion, and still given to him my
> > poor<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12327a.htm>fatherly counsel, but
> > I perceive none of all this able to call him home; and
> > therefore, Meg, I will no longer dispute with him, but will clean
> give him
> > over and get me to God <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm>
> > and pray<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12345b.htm>for him". To
> these
> > prayers <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12345b.htm> Roper attributed
> his
> > return to the Faith <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm>;
> henceforth
> > he was an ardent Catholic
> <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03449a.htm>. He
> > sat in four of Mary's parliaments, twice as member for Rochester and
> twice
> > as member for Canterbury
> <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03299b.htm>. His
> > Catholicism <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03449a.htm> got him into
> > difficulties with the Government under Elizabeth and he was summoned
> before
> > the Council in 1568; in the following year he was bound over to be of
> good
> > behaviour and to appear before the Council when summoned. He does not
> seem
> > to have been troubled further. His reminiscences of Sir Thomas
> > More<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm>were written in the
> > time of Queen
> > Mary <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09766a.htm> nearly twenty years
> after
> > the events with which they deal, but his relations with his father-
> in-law
> > had been so close and the impressions he received in that delightful
> > household so vivid, that these rather disjointed notes form a most
> > attractive biography. Roper's "Life" was not printed till 1626, but
> it was
> > used by the earlier biographers of
> > More<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm>,
> > and is the chief authority for his personal history.
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