Effects of a Catholic England

A little off topic from all this royal intermarriage and lines of succession and whatnot, but has anyone fleshed out a timeline that focuses mainly on Catholic England, and how differently it would develop culturally, socially, economically, and politically from how it did in OTL after King Henry VIII broke off from the Roman Catholic Church?

Well, it depends when England stays Catholic. An England not riven by the chaos that resulted from the King's Great Matter will not necessarily develop the same as an England with a Protestant interlude during the latter reign of Henry VIII and then Edward VI. Or an England that goes Protestant Edward, Catholic Mary, Anglican Elizabeth and then Catholic Mary Stewart will differ from both aforementioned cases.
If we give Mary I a son/heir, then it depends how involved mom and dad are in his upbringing. Mary can insist on a Catholic upbringing for her son, but if she dies when he's still reasonably young, there's no surefire way to keep him rigid Catholic. Felipe II was pragmatic rather than dogmatic about religion outside his realms - if it was in his interests to be so. But Felipe can't stay in England as regent (although he'll visit occasionally) since he has his own country to run. So the Catholic regents (headed by Pole or Gardiner) are in charge. I'm not sure what either's stance on the Reformers was - so we could end up with anything from Ultra-Rabid Catholic (like Felipe III, HRE Ferdinand II) to tolerant (Elizabeth) to couldn't care less (Rudolf II) or even tolerant because they have no other option (Catherine de Medicis)
 
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