Do you feel that Catherine of Aragon would have taken the same actions as Mary I did and kill the protestants?
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I don't think that Catherine would ever have had the chance to do this as she was not monarch but, yes, I think, like Thomas More, she would have felt that she was doing God's work by stamping out heretics, after all, it was her mother and father (Isabella and Ferdinand) who created the Spanish Inquisition. Catherine would have viewed Protestants as heretics and people who were doing the Devil's work and so it would have been her duty to take action if she had been in control of things.
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Henry did plenty of clamping down on Protestants on his own and continued to do so despite his break with Rome. Anne Askew is one example of this and Catherine Parr was a closet Protestant who narrowly escaped a heresy charge; afterwards she didn’t dare discuss religion with Henry who remained entrenched in Catholic views.
I don’t have any information regarding the role of Catherine of Aragon in the persecution of Protestants in Henry’s reign, but I have little doubt she would have approved.
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