Old Catholic Church

Indulgences are one of the most controversial traditions in the Catholic Church. They have impacted the Church for hundreds of years and were a major factor in the Protestant schism within Christianity. Indulgences have had positive results but are often abused. The Church’s Confession of Faith (CCF) is a reliable source for a detailed explanation of what indulgences are and how they work, but fails to capture the importance of indulgences in a historical context and their impact on Christianity…

to unite the people. The Roman Catholic Church eventually became that institution along with kings, queens, and noblemen that would incite control over the people. During the Middle Ages, ordinary people like merchants, salesmen, carpenter and peasants were required to tithe 10 percent of their earnings each year to the Church. Thus, the Roman Catholic Church became very powerful and amassed great fortunes. The picture is a representation of officers of the church coming to collect the ten…

With the fall of the Roman Empire the Catholic Church took over leading to a huge rise in the Christian religion. With the Catholic Church now in power resulted in more people practicing the Christian religion, thus creating what is and was known as Christendom. The rise and evolution of Christendom was a response to factors shared by many other civilizations. Many of the factors were that Christendom has many wars, major changes in the rulers, some successes and a couple failures. This had all…

speaking against the Catholic Church. He was arrested and was interrogated by Church officials. Unlike most common people during this time Menocchio was creative and self-taught. He could, read write and he had free time on his hand to question religion and the Catholic Church teaching. In Early modern Europe religion was very important to people; the church was the only way people could go to heaven. However, Menocchio doubted this and did not believe everything the church told him. In this…

revolutionaize and change the traditional systems of the roman catholic church. These changes were initiated by a group of leaders who saw a need to make amendments within the church in accordance to the gospel in the bible. Other reforms had been advocated before these times but were never successful as the church had a strong command over its following and the political class. However, the 16th century enabled the radical changing of church traditions by scholars and leaders who managed to…

christianity was born. This reforming happenened because the Catholic Church was very corrupt and was more concerned about power than teaching about God. Martin Luther, a man who believed that the Catholic Church was corrupt, reformed the church and helped create a new branch of Christianity. Martin Luther believed that the Catholic Church was corrupt. On October 31 1517 Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses on the door of the Catholic Church in Wittenburg, Germany. The Theses were aimed at…

failure was a catalyst of the fracturing of the Roman Catholic Church, leading to the Protestant Reformation. The Crusades were a catalyst for the Age of Discovery through the return of trade between Europe and the Middle East, which led to further exploration of the world The Crusades were a catalyst for the Renaissance through the return of classical knowledge…

During the Reformation, a theologian, Martin Luther considered himself a “liberator” of the people, “freeing Christians from a burdensome Catholic Religious system” (Mullet, “Martin Luther” 1). Luther was a highly educated monk, who later challenged the Roman papacy with his 95 theses, which in return, would then result in his excommunication from the church. His actions and writings were immensely influential at the time, painting him as the face for the reformation. "Martin Luther was born in…

During the Protestant Reformation the Catholic religions was question. Martin Luther created agitation through his “95 Theses” and prompted a new religion, Protestantism. Two major effects that the Protestant Reformation had on the Catholic Church were changing the roles of the Pope, it divided the Christians which is also known as the “Great Schism”. To begin, the Roman Catholic Church was very powerful institution and it was involved in the lives of individuals from birth to death. It…

time as many of them opposed the thinking of the Catholic Church, one of the most powerful institutions in the world.…