The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-02-01
LIFE OF CARDINAL. WoL 8. !


LIFE OF CARDINAL WOLSEY
Thomas Wolsey, Legate and Reformer
: By Elnelfed Z. Taunton. So net. New
York; John Lane. 5575s'
MAJ Catholic priest. He is the author Of
& & Hl storys Of Jesuits in England, . and this
x ,,lh4a presents y CARDINAL Wolsey in a new
permeated with an evident desire for : the l
PLAIN truth. Taunton's estimate of the car
d ~ greatly at variance with that of
1shakespeare, who in his Henry VIII. rep
r res Wolsey as saying:
Had but served my God with half the
! served my king, He would not in mine
Have left me naked to mine enemies.''
The author claims that Shakespeare
would not have dared to write the truth
about m% Cardinal e Wolsey in the time of
II the several propositions of this latest
Work on the .primate are to be accepted,
however, Wolsey's truest eminence is en-
ons,. loyal and in the end self -sacriicing
He is represented as ambitious, chiefly for
his church's sake; The sp1endor of his
glory Of his office. His intimacy with
Henry, II due to a love of power, was due
also to a love for the advancement and
h higher Mo dignity of the earthly yicarage of
lions over what the writer calls 1.-THE Di-
Yorce. Henry's ambassador fell because
Henry,s desires suffered through the le-
gates determination to preserve intact the
One thing is, however, certain. That is
the cardinal's faith in education, which is
a ate BY the historic Christ Church Col
The author commends Wolsey for his sup
preston of Luther's writings in England
and for his deathbed advice to Henry:
y request his grace, in Gods name, that
he have viglant eye to depress the new
pernicious sect Of Lutherans, that it do not
increase within his >dominions through his
negligence, in such sort as that he shall
back to Subdue them.
Regarding the tliberality of mind of the
cardinal, Mr.; Taunton says:
Enough stern toward false teaching, and
clearly alive to the danger, the great
minded cardinal had pity on those who,
through Ignorance, had become infected.
Legatine Court on the charge Of heresy
was burnt. And this Christian tolerance
on the part of Wolsey is all the more cred
liable when we recall the hideous cruelties
the II !, latter years Of Henry, and in the reign
of his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth
beautiful picture is included in this
last chapter, The Cardinals Greatness .
He is spoken Of as having confirmed cate
cumens while on his way to Cawood castle
during that memorableIlast journey, 'sun-
til constrained for WEAKNESS to sit down
in !, chair air the number Of children was
SUCH, That done, she said his evensong
and then went to supper and rested him.
self there all that night. The next morn
ing, before. setting out, he laid hands on
he rode on in the crisp air Of Yorkshire
morning, ne found grouped around a stone
cross which stood on a little green near
dred children waiting for the archbishop
to confirm them At once he alighted from
MIS- mule and administered the sacrament
under the canopy of heaven
Z 1IllS comprehensive volume on q ifo
Of 50 prominent a cleric will prove Of great
interest Father Taunton does not treat
more. than the ecclesiastic features of the
in interesting detail The book is illus.
trated with twenty-one good engravings of
famous characters and cathedrals.