All over Europe Monarchs observed the power of the church go from almighty to impuissant because of the Protestant uprising. These leaders started to use this power to their advantage. The Church used to be a non-secular place for people to worship Christ. Entering the 16th century, people of the church started to notice peculiarities of the building, in specific, their greed for money. Critics of the Church declared that the papacy had developed into an expenditure trust run by Church clergymen who supervised the papacy’s temporal actions. Europeans claimed that the Church turned into a money making business when it is reputed to be a community of God. These people had reason behind their words. Simony and the selling of indulgences initially rose as a gift from the Church. But, after meticulous realization, buyers of these indulgences realized that the Church just wanted their money. The Church could jack up prices to as high as they desired because everyone rushed to obtain these “tickets” to heaven. The Church claimed that the indulgences were remission of the temporal penalty of punishment in purgatory that remained after sins had been
All over Europe Monarchs observed the power of the church go from almighty to impuissant because of the Protestant uprising. These leaders started to use this power to their advantage. The Church used to be a non-secular place for people to worship Christ. Entering the 16th century, people of the church started to notice peculiarities of the building, in specific, their greed for money. Critics of the Church declared that the papacy had developed into an expenditure trust run by Church clergymen who supervised the papacy’s temporal actions. Europeans claimed that the Church turned into a money making business when it is reputed to be a community of God. These people had reason behind their words. Simony and the selling of indulgences initially rose as a gift from the Church. But, after meticulous realization, buyers of these indulgences realized that the Church just wanted their money. The Church could jack up prices to as high as they desired because everyone rushed to obtain these “tickets” to heaven. The Church claimed that the indulgences were remission of the temporal penalty of punishment in purgatory that remained after sins had been