Martin Luther did not wish to break from the Catholic Church, all he wanted was to initiate a discussion on possible reforms within the church and announced his issues (The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences) in the then common way of posting them on the door of the local Cathedral.
It was the German princes that wanted to break from the control of the (not so) Holy Roman Empire that then offered him the chance to create his own church.
The Catholic Reformation.
This was the Council of Trent, which was held at various times in a twenty-year period during the mid-1500's.
This was the Council of Trent, which was held at various times in a twenty-year period during the mid-1500's.
The Spanish did not reform the Anglican church. The Anglican church is English and begun by Henry when he threw out the Catholic church in England.
Catholics are Christians who have been baptized in the Church and believe in the Nicene Creed in its traditional interpretation. The Catholic Church was begun by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, around 33 A.D. so the Catholic Church is nearly 2,000 years old.
The mission begun by Jesus - sharing the Good News and the new covenant
There is no one day when we can say the Catholic Church was born.The original Christian Church is generally thought to have begun between about 30 and 33 CE, and the Catholic Church also claims this to be the start of the Catholic Church, ignoring the competing claims of the Orthodox Church and perhaps even the Gnostics.A more neutral answer could be that the Catholic Church began in the Great Schism of 1054, when the churches of Rome and Greece parted company.
The religious movement in the Atlas Mountains was begun by Abd al-Mu'min, who established the Almohad Caliphate in the 12th century. The Almohad movement aimed to reform Islamic practices in North Africa and ultimately expanded into Spain.
It is a Catholic religious order of priests. It was begun by St. Ignatius of Loyola around the time of the Council of Trent. The Jesuits take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and obedience to the Pope.
It is a Catholic religious order of priests. It was begun by St. Ignatius of Loyola around the time of the Council of Trent. The Jesuits take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and obedience to the Pope.
If the Catholic woman marries a Orthodox man without a dispensation from the Church the marriage is ipso facto invalid, thus no annulment process needs to be begun - the marriage is plainly invalid.
Maryland was founded as a Catholic colony, but by the time of the Revolution, they had begun to tolerate other religions, and with the passage of the US constitution, they agreed to a degree of religious neutrality. Religious neutrality in the United States has been a work in progress ever since.