Factors hindering Catholic restoration

What is one? And what factor is this?

The brevity of her reign, a factor outside of her control

What is one factor that was administrative incompetence?

Pole was already unfamiliar with the realm he was dealing with, did not give ecclastical policy his full attention, owing to his responsibility for seeking peace between the Habsburgs and the French

What is another factor that is administrative incompetence?

Pole’s scheme to overhaul Church finance required two huge surveys, one of pensions to former monks and members of the clergy, and the other of poor benefices. This took 18 months.

What is another factor that is administrative incompetence

Pole’s strategy relied on the active involvement of the bishops, but six sees were left, vacant for most of the reign

What is a factor outside of her control?

Pope Julius III, a staunch personal friend of Pole, died in 1555

What was another factor outside of her control?

New Pope, Paul IV, was virulently anti-habsburg and i dispute with Philip

What was another administrative incompetence?

Marian gov failed to realise the potential of literacy and printing- critical works failed outnumbered publications that supported Mary’s policies by two to one

What was another factor that was administrative incompetence?

propaganda opportunities were not always seized, for example nothing was made of the debates between leading Prots and Catholics at Oxford in 1554, or the recantation of John Cheke

What was another factor that was administrative incompetence?

The bishops should of been the driving force reforming the clergy, but Edwardian bishops were still in their sees until 1554. Later in the reign there were lengthy vacancies, especially from 1557, when Pope Paul IV refused to confirm Marian appointments to vacant bishoprics, owing to sour relations with Pole