Thomas More has been dead nearly 500 years. Why should his legacy matter today?

A Man for This Season, and All Seasons

by  Charles J. Chaput

Archbishop Chaput discusses the Christian response to the HHS mandate and religious liberty by answering two questions: Why does Thomas More still matter? Why does he matter right now?

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America 2012 is a very long way, in so many different ways, from England 1535.

But readers might nonetheless profit in the coming months from some reflection on the life of Sir Thomas. We might also take a moment to remember More’s friend and fellow martyr, John Fisher, the only bishop who refused to bend to the king’s will; the man who shortly before his own arrest told his brother bishops: “. . . the fort has been betrayed even [by] them that should have defended it.”

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