True.
refused to tolerate opposing ideas about religious practices
The Catholic Church, following Our Blessed Lord, has always refused to accept divorce for any valid marriage.
The catholic church still teaches transubstantiation.
Yes, it is against the catholic church and its a sin under the commandment of Adultery.
a movement of modern biblical criticism within the church
Basically at the time only the catholic church existed and when Henry wanted to get a divorce, the church refused. This resulted in him creating the Protestant church (notice the word protest) as a protest against the roman Catholics.
Martin Luther was the one who protested against the catholic church (pope) for selling indulgences.
The Church reacted to Luther's criticism, as it has always done to any criticism of Faith or Morals, by proclaiming the Truth. Then, through dialogue, the Church attempts to show the person the falsehood of their belief and why they are incorrect in their conclusions.
The Catholic Church has always been prolife and against abortions.
It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. A heretic that spoke out against the Church and refused to recant and submit would most often be punished with excommunication. The Church, of course, always tried to save the person first as she is the Body of Christ and is here for the sole purpose of bringing people to salvation, but if she fails in that, she excommunicates in an attempt to limit the damage done, as she did with Martin Luther and other heretics of that era.
Yes. And it was refused. The French Revolution in turn seized all of the property of the Catholic Church and sold it to the highest bidder.
William Tyndale preached against the roman catholic church.