Was Thomas More's burning of heretics regarded as moral at the time or was it considered as reprehensible?

Certainly there were those who More called "heretics" who would have been only too willing to kill him in his turn.

In my opinion, western civilization gradually came to its senses about this in the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War. One finds the desire to kill one's fellow man (or fellow Christian at least) over doctrinal differences gradually disappearing during the late 1600's and early 1700's.

Standards?

Assuming you mean practices, dress, penances, etc.......

Heck, those are as fallible as discipline or canon law.

Dogma?

Never.

If you come see my movie you will have the answer to that question.

But just so you don't feel like I'm trying to hold you up for the price of a ticket, the answer is:

"No."

Some of my Traditionalist friends are very uncomfortable with the section of the film that deals with Giordano Bruno.

It is one of the most powerful sections of the film.

I always tell them the same thing:

"If there is a syllable in there that isn't true, tell me and I will take it out."

There is always a long silence, usually followed by comments about "balance".

"Christians being fed to the lions".

Etc.

My answer is:

Not my story.

Hope this helps.

PS: You should see my movie.

It is really, really good.

Called "The Principle", looks like it will get at least a limited theatrical release sometime early next year.

So do you hold with the burning of heretics, or not?

Yep, it's similar to the Mormons' continuing revelation. Although the First Presidency may pivot like Michael Jordan while the Popes turn like a supertanker, it's a difference in degree not in kind.

Hey Rick, I was gonna ping you to this thread due to this line in the article:

Catholics don’t have to engage in the ridiculous attempt to say that the standards of the past were perfect.

Yes, Glen, all of the breathless anticipation that the Catholic Church
will, at long last, cease to be Catholic and instead adopt the views of
anti-Catholics, is a complete waste of time.

Now how did you get ^THAT from this:

[Decisions like who is or isn't a saint are permanent, I think.] then that's too bad. It
further places the church to the medieval mindset in a negative
manner...

Yes, Glen, all of the breathless anticipation that the Catholic Church will, at long last, cease to be Catholic and instead adopt the views of anti-Catholics, is a complete waste of time.

The Catholic Church is, by the decree of God Almighty, indefectible from the Faith She has been constituted to hold until the end of the world.

This ought to have sunk in by now......

Decisions like who is or isn't a saint are permanent, I think.

If that is the case (and I think you are), then that's too bad. It further places the church to the medieval mindset in a negative manner...

Glen