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| When Henry VIII demanded that the Catholic Bishops of England accept him as the head of the Church in England one, John Fisher, chose death. The other 30 or so caved in. Many, perhaps all, became Anglican bishops . This is only one of many cases where the Catholic bishops have failed in mass to stay with the church. The 266 popes on the other hand have not failed in this way. Why is this? The pope is a bishop. In the natural order of things it is not clear that he should be that much different from other bishops. Yet there is this huge yawning chasm between the fidelity of the Popes and the all to frequent heresy and schism of the bishops. |