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does the existence of redwall abbey imply that there is a mouse pope? more at 11

i want to address the point that the redwall creatures seemed like protestants with the fact that this further implies a Mouse Reformation, featuring a mouse dissident and indeed.. a mouse pope

While it is indeed possible that the theology of Redwall had deviated from the dicta of the Mouse Pope (Pope Mus IV), Protestants don’t, as far as I or the internet knows, have much of a monastic tradition, thus proving that they are Catholic and fall under the jurisdiction of the Holy (Mouse) See. In this essay, I will show that Martin the Warrior should have been excommunicated for his heresies

flagrantly disregarding the possibility that the Redwall animals could be Orthodox

I assumed they were anglicans tbh, given the proto-british society, naming conventions etc, which implies the existence of not only a mouse pope but a mouse henry viii

But surely a mouse Henry VIII would have dissolved Redwall Abbey, appropriated its income, and disposed of its assets.

Mouse Henry VIII was eaten by a cat.

Really though a lot of things about the Redwall society as depicted make more sense if you suppose the whole thing takes place in the recovery period after the collapse of an empire or something. It’s got all these… artifacts of a broader civilization without the infrastructure of a broader civilization. Mice seem to be the central species – but where, outside the abbey, are the mouse elite? (You see badger gentry, squirrel and otter and mole leadership, and less said about shrews the better, and I think some mouse government farther away, but locally?)