Editing Thomas More (section)

=== {{anchor|Catholic Church}} Catholic Church ===
[[Pope Leo XIII]] [[beatified]] Thomas More, [[John Fisher]], and [[List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation#Beatified 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII|52 other English Martyrs]] on 29 December 1886. Pope Pius XI [[canonised]] More and Fisher on 19 May 1935, and More's feast day was established as 9 July.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Brendan F. |title=St. Thomas More, lawyer |journal=Fordham Law Review |year=1935 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=375–390 |url=https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=flr}}</ref> Since 1970 the [[General Roman Calendar]] has celebrated More with St John Fisher on 22 June (the date of Fisher's execution). On 31 October 2000 [[Pope John Paul II]] declared More "the heavenly [[patron saint|Patron]] of Statesmen and Politicians".<ref name=JP2PatronSaint>[[Ecclesiastical letter#Letters of the popes in modern times|Apostolic letter]] issued ''[[motu proprio]]'' proclaiming Saint Thomas More Patron of Statesmen and Politicians, 31 October 2000 [https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_20001031_thomas-more_en.html Vatican.va]</ref> More is the patron of the German Catholic youth organisation [[Katholische Junge Gemeinde]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kjg.de/?id=12|title=Thomas Morus|website=kjg.de|access-date=1 July 2016}}</ref>

It is reported that the canonisation ceremony was greeted with a "minimal and hostile" treatment by the British press, and officially boycotted by the parliament and universities.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miles |first1=Leland |title=Persecution and the Dialogue of Comfort: A Fresh Look at the Charges against Thomas More |journal=Journal of British Studies |date=1965 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=19–30 |doi=10.1086/385507 |jstor=175180 |s2cid=143128538 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/175180 |issn=0021-9371}}</ref>