HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Selling of indulgences by the Pope
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The Pope and clergy living like royalty
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Absenteeism-too few leaders for churches
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -By 1500, many forces had weakened the power of the Catholic Church. The most important of these forces were the new ideas of the Renaissance, the new technology of the printing press, and the increasing skepticism of Church authority generated from events such as the Great Schism and Black Death.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the Late Middle Ages, two major problems were weakening the Roman Catholic Church. The first was worldliness and corruption within the Church. The second was political conflict between the pope and European monarchs.
Detailed explanation-3: -The problems of the Catholic Church most commonly mentioned by respondents are related to misbehaviour of priests and issues related to their sexuality. Over two-fifths of respondents (43%) consider cases of paedophilia among priests to be the biggest problem facing the Church.
Detailed explanation-4: -Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church’s teachings starting in 1517. The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.
Detailed explanation-5: -Administrative Divisions: Competing Popes (Avignon, Rome and more). Proliferation of Questionable Religious Rituals and Practices. Pilgrimages, saint worship, endowment of masses. Corruption and Abuses of Power in Church: