Charles the fifth
The pope and several Roman Catholic monarchs.
1. He was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. 2. He was (later) declared an outlaw.
Martin Luther never declared that anyone should be made a saint. Martin Luther believed that all believers in God were saints.
Luther's greatest heresy was to criticise the Catholic Church for selling indulgences. Prierias, Master of the Papal Palace, then declared any challenge to the sale of indulgences heretical.Luther soon began to call into question many of the practices and theology of the Catholic Church. There was to be no compromise and, unable to have Luther captured, tried and executed, Pope Leo excommunicated him.
I think Martin Luther was declared a heretic not Martin Luther King.Martin Luther King, the American civil rights leader, was never declared a heretic by the Catholic Church.His namesake, Martin Luther, a 15th century Catholic monk, was however declared a heretic for teaching ideas and holding positions the Catholic Church understood to be false and a danger to the Faith as taught by the Church. His failure to stop his teaching of matters opposed to Catholic doctrine also brought him the penalty of being excluded from the Catholic community of believers, thus excommunicated.
The pope and several Roman Catholic monarchs.
Emperor Charles V declared Martin Luther an outlaw at the Diet of Worms in 1521.
1. He was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. 2. He was (later) declared an outlaw.
Martin Luther never declared that anyone should be made a saint. Martin Luther believed that all believers in God were saints.
Diet of worms
Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and an heretic in 1521 by the Edict of Worms for the simple reason that he was both, and remains so until this day. As a matter of fact, he became far worse after his excommunication in 1521, please remember him in your prayers, and the thousands and millions of souls who have been lead astray and grown up outside of Christ's Church on account of Martin Luther and his twisted psyche.
1960
They labeled him as an outlaw.
Luther was then popularized and his ideas were spreading quickly. Lutheranism developed, which was his theses in the movement of Reformation.
He was excommunicated (out lawed), it was the papacy that did it.
After.
Luther's greatest heresy was to criticise the Catholic Church for selling indulgences. Prierias, Master of the Papal Palace, then declared any challenge to the sale of indulgences heretical.Luther soon began to call into question many of the practices and theology of the Catholic Church. There was to be no compromise and, unable to have Luther captured, tried and executed, Pope Leo excommunicated him.