What did Henry viii do to catholics if they didn't change to protestant?

Anglican Catholic Answer!

Nothing is the short answer! Henry didn't do anything to catholics if they didn't change to protestants?

Why should he do that? He was a catholic and both his Church and people were catholics. In fact the Church in England was considered by the Catholic Councils as one of the earliest Churches in Europe, if not the world, outside Jerusalem!

He did do things, as I understand to Protestants who apostacised and left the Catholic Church!

The trouble was that for 500 years there had been a split in the Catholic Church on the subject of the authority of the Bishop of Rome. In the early Church the magisterium had been held amongst the Apostles, in the Acts of the apostles we are shown that ,'eventually,' this authority was expressed by the means of Councils,[Acts 15.]. In Henry's time more and more Catholics were asking how it was that it was the Bishop of Rome who was making the decisions?

For whatever reason, Henry and the Church in England took a decision that supported the claims of the Eastern catholics who had separated from the west in 1054, on this very question. Because he held to the teachings of the early church and the Ecumenical Councils, i.e. the Catholic Faith, the bishop of Rome refused Henry, Communion.

It was Rome who brought new ideas and interpretations in, Henry and the Anglicans stuck by the old ways and held to S. Paul's injunction to 'Keep the Deposit'.