Why were some people unhappy with the Catholic church in 1500?

Answer 1

The services were in latin, the bible was in latin so peasants couldn't read it, the preists had several different jobs and wouldn't help peasants when they asked for it, priests disobeyed rules.

Answer 2

1.) The main dispute stemmed from the fact that the Church was selling indulgences; people were literally buying their way into heaven. In B/C, they started telling people that in order for their loved ones to get to heaven, they had to pay the church a lot of money, otherwise they would go to hell forever. It was a huge money making scheme, which was not good, and also not following The Bible at all.

2.) because they taxed everyoine who went into the church even if it meant poverty .. everyone in the town would HAVE to go

Answer 3

The church was very powerful in 1500, and also very rich. No one dared complain about the church incase they where sent to hell. A perfect man would be sent straite to heven when he died, otherwise you would wait in purgortory (the bit after life but before heven or hell) to be judged. Your aim in life on the earth would be to be perfect so that you could spend as little time in purgortory as possible. If you where rich, you could buy forgiveness from the pope- this caused many complaints from the people. The people where upset that:

The rich could buy there way into heven.

The pope was to rich, and didn't do his job properly (sending other people to do it for him).

The bible was writen in latin, so that people couldn't study at home.

You where only aloud to pray at church.

The monks (who read the bibles at church) couldn't even read latin! They just memorised everything they had to say.

The tithes (1/10 of your earnings, that was donated to the church) wern't spent on the poor, but on the all ready to rich, pope.

The only thing was, that people where to scared to complain incase they where sent to hell. Later on, a man named martin Luther, was the first one to complain properly. He wrote the 95 theses.

Answer 4

The issues in the 1500's were pretty much the same issues that the Catholic Church has faced since the beginning, and still faces, and will continue to face until the end of the world: namely sin, evil, or as more colorfully known: the world, the flesh, and the devil. And in every time, the world, the flesh, and the devil offer the same temptations, they aren't that much different. What was different about the 1500's was a combination of factors had brought an end to the great medieval synthesis, and the cooperation of the Christian state with the Church had come to an end. Individual men were more concerned about this world and profits, then they were about their souls. Into this budding disaster stepped a very well-educated and, at the same time, ignorant friar by the name of Father Luther. Martin Luther had extreme problems of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and instead of putting up the good Christian fight and winning his salvation, he gave in. To salve his conscience, he rewrote Scripture and came up with a novel idea: all this claptrap about winning one's salvation and leading a good Christian life had to go, so he decided he was already saved and didn't have to do a thing, as his salvation was assured. Thus he left his Order without permission, broke all of his solemn lifelong vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. He married an ex-nun, and moved into a house with a cellar full of good German beer. The really novel thing about the 1500's was that the rulers were all too willing to accept this man's philosophy and go along with it - after all, sin is always a lot of fun, and more fun that sending obedience and money to Rome. So the German princes went along with Martin Luther, while in England, Henry VIII was going through the same sins, so he formed his own Church, etc. Thus all of Christian Europe was split in two as princes decided whether to stick with God and His Church or try it alone with a brand new religion.

Answer 5

Roman Catholic AnswerI think that there were things going on in the sixteenth century that were wrong; I do NOT think that there was anything wrong with the Catholic Church. You are probably referring to the protestant revolt, which was started by a man who did not want to live according to his freely chosen vows, took some things that individuals were doing wrong and accused the Catholic Church of perverting the doctrine of Jesus Christ-which is a pretty broad leap for any man to make.

from 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.

Answer 6

The condoms were too rough, MLKJ caused many problems within the society, the protestants wanted many things MLKJ went against, and the 39th thesis caused many public shootings.