What Happened To The Catholic Reformation

Numerous events forced the Catholic Reformation. These events were heavily embedded in the clergy exploitation of the Christian doctrine. In that era the text and the sermons were given in Latin unfortunately, majority of the congregation if not all of the congregation did not speak Latin. Consequently, they were unable to comprehend the sermon. Additionally, the clergy did not live in their own diocese, or speak the native language therefore, they could not sympathize to the needs of the population. Bring together those reasons and the greed and scandalous lives the clergy maintained, thus creating a divide between the clergy and the peasants. Hence, the congregation began to lose faith in the papacy and the papacy began to lose its reputation. In addition, at that time, religious writings were in limited supply, and most commonly sold to the highest bidder. Ergo, many priests did not know much about the faith, which created a lack of uniformity in papacy
The numerous misgivings were now being distributed far and wide. These misconducts had always concerned Martin Luther a Catholic monk from Germany. Martin had previously queried the Church on indulgences and greed. Indulgences were forgiveness from sins for money, which begged that only the rich could buy their way into Heaven. When the pope started a new indulgence campaign, to raise money for the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica, in Rome, Martin Luther could no longer tolerate the churches un-Christian like behavior. Martin Luther, on 31 October in 1517; he forwarded his 95 theses to the local archbishop in protest. Martin Luther’s theses, was distributed at the right moment, to make bring upon the winds of change. For if, it was earlier it might not have changed the history of religion and culture in the