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Arguably, the Reformation was good for the the Catholic Church, as it became spiritually stronger because it was forced to face up to its moral failings in past centuries.
At the same time, the Church was weakened because it could no longer command blind obedience from all Christians, a situation that some would say was bad for the Church. The unwillingness to accept the lessons of history was so strong that even up to Second Vatican Council in 1965, it was the Church's view that only the Catholic Church had the right to freedom from persecution.
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∙ 12y agoIf by 'healthy' you mean 'good', than no, the protestant reformation was not good for the church. In fact, the church despised any protestants and the entire protestant reformation altogether.
However, the Reformation did cause the Church to look deeply at itself and make some serious reforms to clean up corruption that had crept into all levels of the Church. That was good as Satan is always working from within and without to destroy the Church. Every now and then the Church needs to do some housekeeping to keep the Evil One at bay.
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∙ 12y agoThe Protestant Reformation did not change the Catholic Church. However, it did get the attention of Church leaders who called the Council of Trent to discuss the issues and make some of the reforms the Protestants sought. This is sometimes referred to as the Catholic Reformation.
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∙ 12y agoNo. It was a Protestant movement.
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What specific issue sparked reformation in Germany?
Martin Luther began the Reformation . This was a movement to correct problems in the church . The Reformation split the church into two groups , Catholics and Protestants .
What is the difference between the English Reformation and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations?
The English reformation was state led, originally anyhow! It had very little support from the English people or Church initially. It made no real changes to the Church only abolishing some few medieval intrusions or additions to the faith! It also returned the Anglican Church, the Church in England, back to its roots in the catholicity of the first thousand years before the split between east and west!
What changes did archbishop William laud make to the church?
Archbishop added a few catholic touches to the Protestant Church. This included decorating the church- Protestants only liked plain churches . The Protestants reacted badly to this change though
What statements accurately describe the Catholic Church's response to the Reformation?
A:At first the Catholic Church was in denial about the need to reform. At least for senior clergy, it had been a good life for centuries and seemed as if it would continue indefinitely.Emperor Charles ordered Pope Clement VII to convene a council for the reformation of the Church, and to remain politically neutral. However, Clement did everything possible to avoid calling a council. Russel Chamberlin (The Bad Popes) says that any effective council, in examining the morality and structure of the existing system, could not have failed to take into account Clement's own career and pronounce him unfit for office.Pope Paul III set up a special committee, to prepare a report which they presented to the Pope in February 1537. It was a strongly worded document which did not mince words in accounting for the sickness of the Church, and it made radical proposals to 'restore the Church of Christ, which was crumbling down, nay had almost fallen in headlong ruin'. This set alarm bells ringing down the corridors of the curia, and endeavours were made by interested parties to suppress its findings.In previous centuries, the Catholic Church had responded to challenges by use of spiritual and temporal force, and once again sought to use force against the Protestants. The overriding ambition of Pope St. Pius V was the utter extinction of all forms of heresy, including Protestantism. He commanded the extermination of the Huguenots and may have been implicated in the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, although this is unproven.The Catholic Church refused to recognise the legitimacy of the Protestant Churches that arose during and after the Reformation. Until the time of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, it was the Church's view that only the Catholic Church had the right to freedom from persecution. For example, the Syllabus of Errors, issued by Pius IX in 1864, stated that where Catholics are in the minority, they have the right to public worship, but where others faiths are in the minority, they have no right to public worship because only the true faith has the right to public worship.Catholic AnswerThe response to the protestant revolt was called the Catholic Reform, or the Counter-reformation by protestants and seculars. from the Catholic EncyclopediaThe term Counter-Reformation denotes the period of Catholic revival from the pontificate of Pope Pius IV in 1560 to the close of the Thirty Years' War, 1648. The name, though long in use among Protestant historians, has only recently been introduced into Catholic handbooks. The consequence is that it already has a meaning and an application, for which a word with a different nuance should perhaps have been chosen. For in the first place the name suggests that the Catholic movement came after the Protestant; whereas in truth the reform originally began in the Catholic Church, and Luther was a Catholic Reformer before he became a Protestant. By becoming a Protestant Reformer, he did indeed hinder the progress of the Catholic reformation, but he did not stop it.from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957The Counter-Reformation is the name given to the Catholic movement of reform and activity which lasted for about one hundred years from the beginning of the Council of Trent (q.v., 1545), and was the belated answer to the threatening confusion and increasing attacks of the previous years. It was the work principally of the Popes St. Pius V and Gregory XIII and the Council itself in the sphere of authority, of SS. Philip Neri and Charles Borromeo in the reform of the clergy and of life, of St. Ignatius and the Jesuits in apostolic activity of St. Francis Xavier in foreign missions, and of St. Teresa in the purely contemplative life which lies behind them all. But these were not the only names nor was it a movement of a few only; the whole Church emerged from the 15th century purified and revivified. On the other hand, it was a reformation rather than a restoration; the unity of western Christendom was destroyed; the Church militant (those still on earth) led by the Company of Jesus adopted offence as the best means of defence and, though she gained as much as she lost in some sense, the Church did not recover the exercise of her former spiritual supremacy in actuality.from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980A period of Catholic revival from 1522 to about 1648, better know as the Catholic Reform. It was an effort to stem the tide of Protestantism by genuine reform within the Catholic Church. There were political movements pressured by civil rules, and ecclesiastical movements carried out by churchmen in an attempt to restore genuine Catholic life by establishing new religious orders such as the Society of Jesus and restoring old orders to their original observances, such as the Carmelites under St. Teresa of Avila (1515-98). The main factors responsible for the Counter Reformation, however, were the papacy and the council of Trent (1545-63). Among church leaders St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), Archbishop of Milan, enforced the reforms decreed by the council, and St. Francis de Sales of Geneva (1567-1622) spent his best energies in restoring genuine Catholic doctrine and piety. Among civil rulers sponsoring the needed reform were Philip II of Spain (1527-98) and Mary Tudor (1516-58), his wife, in England. Unfortunately this aspect of the reformation led to embitterment between England and Scotland, England and Spain, Poland and Sweden, and to almost two centuries of religious wars. As a result of the Counter Reformation, the Catholic Church became stronger in her institutional structure, more dedicated to the work of evangelization, and more influential in world affairs.
What are 4 conflicts that the Roman Catholic Church had at the beginning of the Reformation?
There were any number of conflicts in the church at the beginning of the reformation: the moral turpitude of some members of the clergy, the tendancy of Bishops to have more than one diocese and to not reside in their diocese. Several popes who were more civil rulers than Bishops of the Latin Church. There was also a growing chill in the spiritual life that had become so bad that the Church actually had to legislate that people must receive Holy Communion at least once a year. Also there was the new philosophy of Nominalism which subverted the great scholastic synthesis of faith and reason by destroying its philosophic foundation in Aristotelian realism. And finally there was a growing materialism, a business sense that sought to put the Church into Sunday and out of the places of business. One businessman of the time actually kept two sets of books: one for God, and one for himself.
What denomination is the Church of England?
protestant ...after the protestant reformation...but catholic before it....I think Henry changed it because his wife would bear him no male children and he wanted a divorce but the catholic church did not allow it. so he changed the religion and they were alot of bad thing going on too...
Why are the Crusades a bad reflection on the Catholic Church?
The Crusades were a bad reflection on the Catholic Church because the Crusaders didn't show love, they weren't Christ-like. They went killing even the Eastern Orthodox Christians. But it was really the pope of that time that did evil. There will always be bad people and good people in anything.
What did Obama say about the Catholic church?
The president has never said anything bad about the Catholic church. As a Protestant, he does not agree with every element of Catholic theology, but the president has great respect for the Catholic church, and in fact, his vice president, Joe Biden, and a number of his advisers, are Catholics.
Were any of the 265 popes in the Catholic Church bad?
Yes, there have been several popes in the past who were an embarrassment to the Church.
Are there difference kinds of Catholic?
2 types... a good Catholic and a bad one!
How did Martin Luther's religious reform lead to conflict?
Martin Luther felt that the Catholic Church needed reform because of the bad behavior of his fellow
What impact did the holy roman empire have on the roman catholic church?
They were all the same. Murder, rapes, explotiation, just like today's Catholic church. Repugnant, everything bad they did was and is in the name of religion.
What was the movement that resulted in the creation of the protestant churches?
The Protestant churches were created as a protest against the power and policies of the Roman Catholic Church, especially, in cases where the Roman Catholic Church supported one country against another. In many cases, these bad policies came from the Pope's insufficient control over actions the R.C. priesthood. The priest's also limited study of the Bible, except to their own students. When the Bible could be printed and translated and distributed outside of the monastery, to the ordinary people, it became possible to set upchurchesindependentfrom the Roman Catholic Church.Early protestant movements, the Lollards, Hussites, Anabaptists and then theHuguenots were crushed by the Roman Catholic Church and governments in alliance with the church, but eventually the Lutherans in Northern Europe were able to survive and become established. Then a number of Calvinist and Puritan movements became established in England, Scotland, Netherlands and Switzerland, under the protection of the government. The Anglican movement in England developed with similarities to the Roman Catholic Church, but outside the authority of the Pope. It is a Protestant Church, but has very few theological differences, other than the primacy of the Pope, and the necessity of celibacy for its Priesthood.
I am a Catholic by birth but I don't go to Church on Sundays and would like to know what other church could I go to and not feel bad?
Haha...no other church! You have the opportunity to see bread turn in to Christ every Sunday and you want to go to another church? No other church has what the Catholic church has. I don't think you realize how special the Holy Mass is. It is a mortal sin to miss mass on Sunday. (In a ROMAN CATHOLIC church.)
What specific issue sparked reformation in Germany?
Martin Luther began the Reformation . This was a movement to correct problems in the church . The Reformation split the church into two groups , Catholics and Protestants .
If you sinned in the medieval times your church would give you something to get to heaven?
The Catholic church gave nothing. In fact, the person had to repent. The church taught that man was born in sin and to get to heaven he/she had to live a pure life. As far as anyone was concerned the Church was the "middle man" between God and man, so man needed the Church to gain access to heaven. This is one reason why excommunication was considered so bad. The Catholic Church used to offer what are called 'indulgences' which were given after a person repented. However the system was abused with people just buying indulgences after (or even before) they sin. Martin Luther (1483-1546) thought that the system was immoral and it was one of the reasons he broke away from the Catholic Church, sparking the Protestant Reformation.
Are the divisions in the church good or bad?
bad. you all have to be as 1 family. brothers and sisters.
