What were Martin Luthers main objections to the Catholic Church?

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A:Martin Luther was far from being against the Catholic Church when he nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. At first, he sought reform within the Catholic Church, and leaving the Church he loved from far from his mind. His sole purpose was to reform the Church he loved. He sought to rectify the sale of indulgences and overturn what he saw as corruption at the highest levels of the Church.

In a shoddy deal, Albrecht of Brandenburg had been raised to the archdiocese of Mainz in 1514 but since he intended not to surrender his previous diocese of Magdeburg, and was also under the canonical age to be a bishop, the Pope was able to insist on a considerable fee. He agreed in return that 50 per cent of the monies raised from the preaching of the indulgence in Albrecht's two dioceses could be set against this sum. Luther was finally spurred to action by reports of the vigour and lack of sophistication with which indulgences were preached around Magdeburg by Albrecht's agent, the Dominican friar Tetzel. In October 1517, when he published his 95 theses, Luther still believed that he could achieve reform.

Luther failed in his attempts to reform the Catholic Church, nor did he leave the Church by choice. Excommunicated and with Emperor Charles V under orders from the Pope to enforce a Bull against him, Luther was isolated from the Catholic Church and had to turn to the secular princes for protection. He began to question the teachings of the Catholic Church and tried to return to what he saw as the Bible's answer to salvation.

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Answer from a CatholicThe two reasons that Martin Luther left the Church were sin and pride. His pride could not allow him to live with his sin so he left his Order, to which he was bound by solemn lifelong vows to God, without even asking permission. He then proceeded to break every one of his vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience - in a big and public way. At this distance we are unable to say whether he started his "church" to cover for his sins, and provide a church which did not ask him to live a moral life, or if he was so far gone that he genuinely believed he was doing the right thing. We do have his many statements that since he was already "saved," God did not expect him to lead a moral life, and it wouldn't matter how many times he committed murder or fornication, God would save him anyway - please see his writings for these and other statements. He then proceeded to gut the Bible of any teachings the supported the Catholic Church, by way of reason, he said that he would use the Jewish Canon. But the Canon he used, was the one that Jews made up a century after Our Blessed Lord's death, not the one that Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ used. Other protestants objected and would not allow him to throw out books from the New Testament, although he denigrated St. James, Hebrews, and the Apocalypse in language only fit for a privy, which fits, as he wrote that it was in a privy that he got his stupendous ideas. Martin Luther had a foul mouth, and a fouler mind. For a review of his though in his own words, please get a copy of The Facts About Lutherby Patrick F. O'Hare, LL.D.