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Essay / The Reformation of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe with regard to Europe's socio-economic and religious relations. the Roman Catholic Church. This discontent eventually led to the reform of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe, and religious beliefs and attitudes became divided between Northern and Southern Europe. This is a summary of the events that led to this historic shift in religious culture that would impact Christianity for the next 500 years and beyond. In the late medieval period, many Europeans perceived the large amount of wealth and land acquired by the Roman Catholic Church as unfair compared to their own relatively poor standards of living. Europeans who followed the inner workings of the Roman Catholic Church were also troubled by the Church's emphasis on superstitious practices, such as the worship of false idols. According to Malloy (2010), important relics venerated by the Catholic Church included the "bones of saints and any object believed to have been touched by Jesus, Mary, or the saints." …Many of these articles were not authentic” (384). Although there had been previous attempts to reform the Catholic Church, none were successful until the reform efforts of a priest named Martin Luther. Martin Luther was a German priest and university professor who understood the personal benefits of studying the Bible and was a fervent believer in the idea that man's sins were blotted out by Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. At the time Luther was teaching, the Catholic Church was soliciting donations to build a new St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The Church promised favor to those who...... middle of paper ......em inside symbolic walls, established to strengthen the Catholic religion against Protestantism and other forms of belief non-traditional religious. Catholic Church reform efforts in response to the creation of the Protestant Church have made the Catholic Church the most influential church in the world today. Hundreds of thousands of people adhere to the Catholic religion and follow the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI. Although the Catholic Church survived the turbulent period of the 1500s-1700s, the Protestant faith is also firmly established and consists of many branches of churches around the world. These historical events, which took place primarily with the ideals of Martin Luther, divided Western Christianity into two distinct religious denominations that are and will continue to be extremely influential throughout the world..
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