Understand the impact of King Henry's decision to break from the Catholic Church within the wider context of the Protestant Reformation in this clip from Inside the Court of Henry VIII. Though King Henry was a devoted Catholic, after meeting Anne Boleyn he began to accept ideas about "the new religion," eventually leading to his decision to break from the Catholic Church, which had important impacts on the role of the English Parliament in English political life. Religious authority passed from the Church to the King, enabling Henry to settle his divorce to Catherine of Aragon.