There are some wounds that time simply doesn’t heal. One of them is the twinge of resentment Catholics feel at the sight of Canterbury Cathedral. The spectacular "mother church" of the Anglican Communion was once, in fact, the seat of English Catholicism. The cathedral was even home to a Benedictine monastery.
That all changed, of course, when the Protestant Reformation reached Blighty. Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was a supporter of King Henry VIII and was excommunicated for heresy. Except during the brief reign of Queen Mary, successive Archbishops of Canterbury have sworn allegiance to the English Crown instead of the Supreme Pontiff.
