HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Question
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The pope excommunicated Luther
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The pope gave Luther a job in the Church
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The pope went to war with Luther
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The pope ignored Luther
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Detailed explanation-1: -In January 1521, Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther. Three months later, Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously defiant. For his refusal to recant his writings, the emperor declared him an outlaw and a heretic.
Detailed explanation-2: -In January 1521, the Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther. He was then summoned to appear at the Diet of Worms, an assembly of the Holy Roman Empire. He refused to recant and Emperor Charles V declared him an outlaw and a heretic. Luther went into hiding at Wartburg Castle.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pope Leo promulgated the bull condemning Luther’s unrepentant indictment of the Catholic Church in June 1520, and an official copy finally reached Luther at Wittenberg in October.
Detailed explanation-4: -He disagreed with the Church’s policy on Indulgences (paying money to the Church to obtain forgiveness for sins). Only Catholic priests were allowed to read, interpret, and teach the Bible. The Pope established the only correct way to interpret the scriptures, and all Catholics were bound to follow it.
Detailed explanation-5: -His refusal to renounce all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor. Luther died in 1546 with Pope Leo X’s excommunication still in effect.