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Roman Catholic AnswerThe Kings and nobles breaking away from the Catholic Church was all part of the revolt commonly called the reformation by protestants. It had many different causes, most of them not altruistic. In particular the kings and nobles saw an opportunity to consolidate their power and authority and to remove the power of the Church and its prelates.

from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957Its 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.
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