HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Excessive and corrupt lifestyles of some church officials
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Increased fees for marriages and baptisms
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too many translations of the Bible
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sale of indulgences
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Detailed explanation-1: -Furthermore, the Catholic Church has been criticized for its teaching against the ordination of women to the priesthood, alleged financial corruption and embezzlement, along with its handling of incidents of sexual abuse.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Protestant Reformation is alleged to have shaped major features of Western culture, including freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, the dignity of the individual, and political democracy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Protestants and Catholics They felt that the church was corrupt. They also attacked the ‘cult of saints’ – they argued that relics were fakes which could not cure illness or perform miracles. They believed that the Catholic Church simply used them to make money.
Detailed explanation-4: -Improved training and education for some Roman Catholic priests. The end of the sale of indulgences. Protestant worship services in the local language rather than Latin.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Catholic Church had granted indulgences since the Middle Ages to penitent Christians as a form of absolution after they fulfilled proscribed conditions such as prayer or fasting, but by Luther’s time the church was selling indulgences outright as a source of revenue.