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disagreed with the sale of indulgences
Martin Luther, and others before him, was sickened by the corruption that was rife in the Catholic Church. The tipping point was the selling of indulgences by the Catholic Church. The reformation spread because many people were dissatisfied with the Catholic Church and could see the hypocrisy that was throughout all levels of the Catholic Church.
German theologian Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century. It was an attempt to reform the Catholic Church.
.Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church was never "threatened" by Martin Luther.
Martin Luther became dissatisfied with a number of elements the Catholic Church had introduced such as the sale of indulgences. He protested these things and nailed a list of complaints to the door of a church. Martin Luther was the force behind the Protestant Reformation.
.Catholic AnswerThe Church was, and is, the Catholic Church.
Luther was a Catholic monk .
Roman Catholic AnswerActually, if you read any history of the era, you will find out that "people", as in the common people were NOT dissatisfied with the Catholic Church, they were much more put out with the "reformers". The main people who followed people like Martin Luther, Calvin, or Henry VIII were rulers and wealthy, land-owning people. They were dissatisfied for various reasons and followed these people into heresy for one or another reasons. The people themselves were very unhappy about the whole thing.
Because the Roman Catholic church had too much power and was doing things that they werent supposed to do.
He is a protestant because he protested the belief of the Catholic church about indulgences.
His followers. I have been raised Lutheran and I have learned that Martin Luther's original intentions were not at all to break with the Catholic church, he in fact encouraged his followers not to break from the church, he just wanted to change the corruptness of it and focus more on the Bible. The way I understand it to be is that Martin Luther's followers (not Martin Luther, it was after his death) broke from the Catholic church because they recognized the strength of the church itself and were insulted by the fact that the Catholic church excommunicated Luther.
Martin Luther felt that the Catholic Church needed reform because of the bad behavior of his fellow