; Whereas it is reported that William Tyndale’s last words were, Lord, open the King of England’s eyes ; Whereas over 18,000 copies of the English translation of the New Testament were eventually smuggled into England; Whereas King Henry VIII initiated the Reformation in England in his quest for a divorce from Catherine of Aragon; Whereas King Henry VIII was excommunicated in 1533 (officially promulgated in 1538); Whereas King Henry VIII declared himself the head of the Church of England in 1534; Whereas Henry VIII allowed the English Bible in England in 1536 and required every parish to have a copy; Whereas John Knox brought Calvinism to Scotland in 1559; Whereas, after only a few decades of the Reformation, the law began to give legitimacy to Lutherans across Europe; Whereas the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, granted limited rights to Protestants in 1552; Whereas, in 1555, the Peace of Augsburg gave Lutherans equal rights in the Holy Roman Empire; Whereas the Colloquy of Worms in 1557, which attempted to unite Lutherans and Catholics, failed; Whereas, in response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church began to reform itself internally through the Counter-Reformation; Whereas, at the Council of Trent (1545–1563), the Catholic Church banned the practice of selling indulgences; Whereas animosity between the Catholic Church and the Protestants previously existed following the start of the Reformation but relations have improved drastically over the last half century; Whereas the Catholic Church and the Protestants began to mend their relationship after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, with the initiation of a dialogue promoting Christian unity; Whereas Pope John XXIII established the Secretariat for the Promotion of Christian Unity in 1961; Whereas Pope John XXIII met often with Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox religious leaders and invited them to send observers to the Second Vatican Council