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Catholic AnswerAt the time they were known as heretics. Modern scholars, more politically correct, call them protestants.Protestants were the people who during the European Reformation protested against the Roman Catholic Church.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther, a German monk, protested abuses by the Catholic Church by posting his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517. This event is often considered the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther was the one who protested against the catholic church (pope) for selling indulgences.
First off, 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. . Secondly, Martin Luther never started a movement to reform the Catholic Church, Martin Luther LEFT the Catholic Church to start his own Church. Which is a completely different thing. That is commonly mislabeled as the protestant reformation, Catholics refer to it as the protestant revolt.
The protestant Reformation was important in Europe because the Roman Catholic Church was falling apart and many church officials were getting corrupt. They did simony, and started selling indulgences at expensive prices. True Catholics protested against the church and Finally, the church started to counter and reform from inside. if they did not, the Catholic society would be long gone by now.
The reformers were trying to draw attention to the problems with the Catholic Church.
Catholic Reformation or Counter Reformation
Catholic
The protestant reformation is the name of the religious reform movement that divided the Roman Catholic Church.
The Reformation was devoted to reforming the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church