Figuring out religious matters from detective fiction, that's serendipity

I will get back to Katherine Howard, but wanted to introduce my fully fictional education on religious sentiments in Henry's time. I have  (with full enjoyment) powered through the five-book series featuring the adventures of  C.J. Sansom's recurring protagonist Matthew Shardlake, a younger contemporary of Henry VIII.  The other books and dramatizations I've tackled so far are based, sometimes a bit fancifully, on recorded historical events. The  Shardlake books are full on fictional  mystery-thrillers woven into historical events.

They weave in  a lot about the texture and mechanics of everyday Tudor era life, as well as the impact of the constant upheavals on a range of everyday people, some of which is no doubt educated speculation but generally rings true.

My Shardlake experience has given me a lot more confidence about understanding the range of that massive source of contention, religious difference.  I already knew that talking about England in the years following the break with the Catholic church in terms of "Protestant" versus "Catholic"  goes beyond confusing and is downright misleading.  

Here's my newly clarified overview of the main classes of believers:

Papists:  hoped for full return to the Catholic Church under rule of the Pope.

Conservatives: resigned to the idea that the Church of England was cut off from Rome, but wanted return to some or all of the "old ways," including  monasticism, Latin mass, strictly limited access to English Bibles, confession,  veneration or relics, and the doctrine of purgatory.

Reformers: Had been very repelled by corrupt practices in the Catholic church,were  strongly in favor of access to the English bible by everyone, liked sweeping away of trappings of Catholic Church. Had varying opinions about matters such as ornamentation and instrumental music in churches.'

Radical reformers: Progenitors of Puritans, zealously religious, insular, intolerant of rituals and frivolous behavior, separatist in tendency.

And as for the King himself, what did he think? Henry, for all that he was strong-willed, was subject to influence of his wives and their families, and also of the men of  church and state whose careers he had promoted.  The things he liked about breaking from the Church were 1) getting to say who he could marry and divorce without meddling, and 2) enjoying the huge boost in wealth that came from dissolution and virtual appropriation of the monasteries.