The book of common prayer was a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, and The Act of Supremacy established the English monarchs as the head of the Church of England...which means that this mixed politics and religion, but as far as i recall England was never an actual theocracy, although Louis XIV had an authoritarian government while he was the head of the anglican church
2. When catholic church noticed they were loosing a lot of faithful, they had to do something about it, such as prohibiting some books and creating punishments to people who would threaten the unit of the church and more importantly, they prepared a little better the future clergy... that kinda slowed down the reform
3. in times when the society was built around catholic values, marriage and family was primary and pure, marriage was unbreakable, there was no such thing as a divorce, there were only annulments, that had to be approved by the actual pope.
hope i’ve helped
they wanted it so they worked for it
That is was the key stone to their life and they needed to protect it at with everything they had to offer,
