Why did people begin to question the Catholic churches?

Answer 1

Roman Catholic Answer Sinful man has always been proud, he thinks he knows better than God and His Church. To question the Church is known as a heresy, and they have been around since the first century. The first people to question the Church were the Circumcisers, they are mentioned in the New Testament. They wanted to retain the Old Law under the Old Covenanent.

Answer 2

The short answer is sin. The Roman Catholic Church fell into the sin of corruption. The initial aim of Martin Luther, professor of biblical studies and Augustine monk, was not to abolish the Church's indulgences, but to reform their use. The pope sought increasing sums by way of the sale of indulgences, but the event that really spurred Luther to action was the shoddy deal in which Albrecht of Brandenburg had been raised to the archdiocese of Mainz, while remaining bishop of Magdeburg, on condition of a considerable fee which he agreed to pay from fifty per cent of the monies raised from the preaching of the indulgence in the two dioceses.

The ordinary German people were even less interested in the Church's indulgences, but they were very interested in the mistreatment of the peasantry by the landowning Roman Catholic Church and willingly supported any move that might remove the yolk of oppression imposed by the bishops.