The 19th Ecumenical Council of the Church was summoned for the purposes of 1) reforming the Church, and 2) combating Protestantism. The nineteenth ecumenical council opened at Trent on 13 December, 1545, and closed there on 4 December, 1563. Its main object was the definitive determination of the doctrines of the Church in answer to the heresies of the Protestants; a further object was the execution of a thorough reform of the inner life of the Church by removing the numerous abuses that had developed in it. The Council of Trent was called by Paul III who was pope from 1534 to 1549 and it first sat in December 1545. The long term effects were the lost of millions of souls over the past five hundred years. Souls who, in various states of innocent have been raised outside of Christ's Church and taught an inherent mistrust of His Church, and the Sacraments He established to bring them to salvation: making it extremely difficult for them to earn their salvation as they are taught, contrary to Christ's teaching, that they need do nothing but profess belief in Our Blessed Lord.
from the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Council of Trent
The Ecumenical Council of Trent has proved to be of the greatest importance for the development of the inner life of the Church. No council has ever had to accomplish its task under more serious difficulties, none has had so many questions of the greatest importance to decide. The assembly proved to the world that notwithstanding repeated apostasy in church life there still existed in it an abundance of religious force and of loyal championship of the unchanging principles of Christianity. Although unfortunately the council, through no fault of the fathers assembled, was not able to heal the religious differences of Western Europe, yet the infallible Divine truth was clearly proclaimed in opposition to the false doctrines of the day, and in this way a firm foundation was laid for the overthrow of heresy and the carrying out of genuine internal reform in the Church.
.Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church was never "threatened" by Martin Luther.
The Catholic Church has never issued rewards for anybody. The only thing that the Catholic Church did to Martin Luther was to formalize his excommunication, see it at the link below:
The Catholic Church never abducted little girls and, no, this was not a complaint of Martin Luther.
.Catholic AnswerThere was never a "war" with Martin Luther and the Church, the question is not valid.
No, Martin Luther King was a Baptist, a church which split off from the Church of England. It, as well as the Church of England, is considered as a Protestant denomination and not a part of the Catholic Church.
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 was considered a heretic by the Catholic Church.
That the Catholic Church is the Body of Christ.
Martin Luther was a Catholic monk who sought to reform the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther King, along with his son, Martin Luther King, Jr. were both Baptist ministers. To the best of my knowledge they had nothing to do with the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church due to his Ninety-Five Theses, which he posted on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517. In these theses, Luther criticized the selling of indulgences by the Catholic Church, questioning its authority and practices. This led to a chain reaction of events that ultimately resulted in Luther's excommunication in 1521.
The protestant reformation was caused by Martin Luther who wrote the ninety-five theses. He criticized the Catholic church and other followed him, causing a break-away from the roman catholic church.