What were some problems in the church during the Renaissance times and how did the Catholics and Protestants react to it?

Answer 1

Well, the Catholic Church was offering indulgences, or the forgiveness of sins, ( for money TO PAY FOR ST. PETERS BASILICA. ( which is far more beautiful than any Protestant church( sorry I'm mad about lies on the internet) ) so Martin Luther broke off and that started Protestants, which there are 30,000 different PROTESTent religions.

Catholic AnswerThe Renaissance is roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, for the most part there were no protestants during the first half of these period. The Renaissance was a time of concentrating on humanism as opposed to God and Protestantism was one of the results of people turning away from God and the Church and concentrating more on themselves. As for the above answer, the Catholic Church has always offered indulgences, and still does today. They are not for the forgiveness of sins and have never been for that. Indulgences are for the forgiveness of penance which has been imposed on someone already forgiven.

Answer 2

The chief difficulty the Church faced in these times was corruption, both in terms of the administration and local dioceses. In addition, a fair number of people were beginning to question the sanctity of the popes and some of the policies of the Church, plus its increasing influence in government. Finally, with the invention of the printing press came a method of distributing information more easily, so as to reach a higher percentage of the population.

Answer 3

Well, the Catholic Church was offering indulgences, or the forgiveness of sins, ( for money TO PAY FOR ST. PETERS BASILICA. ( which is far more beautiful than any Protestant church( sorry I'm mad about lies on the Internet) ) so Martin Luther broke off and that started Protestants, which there are 30,000 different PROTESTent religions.

Catholic AnswerThe same two problems the Church has faced for twenty centuries, and now into the twenty-first: sin and evil are the two perennial problems the Catholic Church must face in every age. The Renaissance is roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, for the most part there were no protestants during the first half of these period. The Renaissance was a time of concentrating on humanism as opposed to God and protestantism was one of the results of people turning away from God and the Church and concentrating more on themselves. As for the above answer, the Catholic Church has always offered indulgences, and still does today. They are not for the forgiveness of sins and have never been for that. Indulgences are for the forgiveness of penance which has been imposed on someone already forgiven.The problems within the Church that gave rise to the "reformation" were many and rather complicated. It was not a simple "a" happened so "b" happened as a result. There was a secularization that had occurred, there were many priests whose lives were not exactly holy. The education system was not working, and priests were being ordained who did not really know theology (one famous reformer comes to mind, this 95 Theses were a shining example of ignorance of Catholic theology). Another thing, not usually taken into account by moderns when thinking about the Renaissance is that people had turned away from the Church and were worshipping a very old god - money. They were trying to make their Christianity fit into their business, not the other way around. They no longer followed the Church throughout their lives.

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A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957

The Protestant Reformation: the revolt from the Catholic Church in Western Europe begun and carried to its height in the 16th century. It differed from all previous heretical movements in that it was not concerned with one or a few definite points of doctrine but was directed against the whole complex and system of Christianity as then understood; it gave licence to the human self in the spiritual and religious order. Its principal causes were: the excessive temporal power, wealth and privilege which accrued to the higher clergy, the wicked, worldly and careless lives of many of the clergy, secular and regular, and the decay of philosophy and theology (these resulted partly from the Renaissance) with consequent low standard of spiritual life among the people generally; the weakening of the authority of the Holy See, following the Great Schism, increased by the humanistic corruption of the papal court; the parallel insurgence of secular princes. Its principal motives were: desire for the purity of religion and godliness of life which, from the state of the clergy, precipitated a violent and unreasoning anti-clericalism which degenerated into contempt for all spiritual authority; the national ambitions of secular princes which flourished in the break-up of the Catholic integrity of Europe; an appetite for spoil and, as in England, fear of having to give up looted ecclesiastical wealth; in some, a hatred of the Church and Faith which can be attributed only to the direct working of the Devil. The principal results of the Reformation were: the true reform of the Church "in head and members" effected by the Council of Trent and the revivification of Catholicism so thoroughly achieved that it remains vital to this day (The Counter-reformation); the putting of countless souls, notably in Great Britain, Scandinavia and the German parts of the Empire, in enmity to the Church and consequently outside those means provided by Christ for man to know and attain to God; the disappearance of any "higher unity" holding together the diverse peoples and nations of Europe, the inoculation of men with naturalistic and humanitarian (as opposed to theocentric) philosophy which is now the chiefest enemy of Christianity.