Editing Regnans in Excelsis (section)

==Renewal in 1588==
In 1588, [[Pope Sixtus V]], in support of the [[Spanish Armada]], renewed the solemn bull of excommunication against Queen Elizabeth I, for the [[regicide]] of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1587 as well as the previously catalogued offences against the Catholic Church.<ref>[http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/mambo/CERRA/MEMED/1Sixtus5Eliz.html Text of Sixtus V's 1588 Bull against Queen Elizabeth in support of the Armada] {{dead link|date=September 2014}}</ref> During the threat of invasion by the Spanish Armada, it transpired that most of the Catholic residents in England remained loyal, and that those who were a real threat to the throne, like [[William Allen (cardinal)|William, Cardinal Allen]] and [[Robert Persons]], were already exiles.

While the bull had little impact in England, it caused a rift in Elizabeth's [[Kingdom of Ireland]] where most of the population remained Roman Catholic; [[Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond]], had used the bull as justification for the [[Second Desmond Rebellion]].<ref name="Canny2001">{{cite book|last=Canny|first=Nicholas P.|author-link=Nicholas Canny|title=Making Ireland British, 1580-1650|url=https://archive.org/details/makingirelandbri00cann|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, England|isbn=0-19-925905-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/makingirelandbri00cann/page/124 124]}}</ref> While divisions had existed before 1570, after the bull the officials based in Dublin conformed to [[Anglicanism]] while the majority of the [[Parliament of Ireland]] were Catholics until 1613.<ref>MacCurtain M., ''Tudor and Stuart Ireland'' Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1972.</ref>