Martin Luther King Jr. did not lead people against the Catholic church, he led them against some of the people in the Catholic church. These people where the horrible people who lynched many black people.
People followed MLK because he was the leader of a great movement.
Both men believed that the Catholic Church should end the sale of indulgences.
Martin Luther was the one who protested against the catholic church (pope) for selling indulgences.
The Catholic Church has never issued rewards for anybody. The only thing that the Catholic Church did to Martin Luther was to formalize his excommunication, see it at the link below:
Martin Luther
Martin Luther was considered a heretic by the Catholic Church.
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.Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church was never "threatened" by Martin Luther.
Martin Luther is the most well known however there are many who were against the excess of the catholic church.........
.Catholic AnswerThe Church was, and is, the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther. He started the Protestant Reformation by going up against the Pope and declaring the church to be corrupt. It was after Luther's time that the church split into Catholic and Protestant.
Luther was a Catholic monk .