That many of the English Catholic parish priests in Tyndale’s day were so corrupt that they were widely known as “common drunkards” and regular hosts at their abbeys to “brothel women”? Even Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the pope’s personal representative in England, lived with a “wife” for several years and had two children, then gave her away to another man, complete with dowry! That in their efforts to suppress circulation of Tyndale’s first edition of an English New Testament, the English Catholic