Why did people begin to protest against the Catholic Church?

Answer 1

Various reasons: corruption, injustice, hypocrisy, oppressive ruling.

They felt that the Church was corrupt, power-hungry, and had too much control over peoples' lives. They didn't like the fact that the Church had power over everything, including the rulers of countries.

Answer 2

Roman Catholic Answer

People began to protest the Catholic Church due to sin. Sin is a disordered desire to do your own will not God's will. God came to earth and established His Church in order to bring people to Him. People always disagree and want to do things their own way, due to sin, and thus object to God's Will for them, which is expressed in His Church

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980Sin "A word, deed or desire in opposition to the eternal law" (St. Augustine). Sin is a deliberate transgression of the law of God, which identifies the four essentials of every sin. A law is involved, implying that there are physical laws that operate with necessity, and moral laws that can be disregarded by human beings. God is offended, so that the divine dimension is never absent from any sin. Sin is a transgression, since Catholicism holds that grace is resistible and the divine will can be disobeyed. And the transgression is deliberate, which means that a sin is committed whenever a person knows that something is contrary to the law of God and then freely does the action anyway.

Answer 3

I assume you mean around the time before the reformation.

Many people were dissatisfied with things that could be seen happening in the Catholic Church. People such as Jan Hus, Peter Waldo, and John Wycliffe Martin Luther made attempts at reforming the Catholic Church

The selling/abuse of indulgences was a concern of Luther. The reform movement really gained momentum When Martin Luther wrote and made public "The Ninety-Five Theses". This was a list of questions and propositions (mainly about the abuse of indulgences) for public debate.

There were many other teachings and practices of the Late Medieval Catholic Church that Luther and others were not happy with. For example, The corruption and sin that was evident among the clergy.
In the papal court unbelief, levity and immorality, money and luxurious living seemed to have replaced apostolic poverty and self-denial.

Luther for one believed the scriptures should be available for the common people to read, he translated The Bible into everyday German. At that time only the monks had scripture to read and that was in Latin

Answer 4

Because they did not obey the pope and had simpler churches and they also never taxed the barons.But the Catholic church did that is why they have so much jewelerry

Answer 5

Martin Luther initiated the rebellion against the Church which is still going on.