2006-09-05 13:19:24 · 17 answers · asked by ruffian 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to the Roman Catholic Church, Martin Luther is a heritic, he went against the teachings of the Church, read the Bible for himself and discovered that a lot of what the Church taught was bogus. He called them on it and the Church put a price on his head because of it. So, no, the Roman Catholic Church will never make or consider Martin Luther as a Saint.
2006-09-05 13:27:51 · answer #1 · answered by Princess of the Realm 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Apparently Chris has no idea who Martin Luther is. LOL...
Why would the Catholic church make a man who broke away from their beliefs a saint? If anything, the Catholic church probably condemned him to hell for going against their beliefs, starting a reformation of the Catholic church ( he started the Lutheran church) and leading other Catholics away from the church.
2006-09-05 13:32:01 · answer #2 · answered by ktjokt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think so. I think that would disrespect Martin Luther and Lutherans as a group. He had a lot of things right WAY before the Catholic Church, but we don't have any "claim" on him. I think it wouldn't hurt for many Catholics to learn more about him, though.
2006-09-05 18:12:36 · answer #3 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Protestant religions seem kind of empty and soulless, yet angry and ridiculous at the same time. Calvin claimed the road to hell is paved with the skulls of unbaptized infants. Yet, Luther knew accumulation of wealth and selling of heavenly dividends was wrong and was able to affect change. I may be wrong but all prodestants are derived from Luthers break after the 95 theses. The real break from Rome needs to come from the AMERICAN Catholic Church. They allow married clergy birth control and other modern reforms while keeping the fundamental catholic ceremonies.
2016-03-26 23:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martin Luther was your early prototype of a disaffected, quasi-intellectual college professor, just like the thousands of liberal, radical university professors we have today.
What Luther lacked was faith alone, the very thing he claimed was necessary for salvation.
Sainthood for Martin Luther? Hardly.
2006-09-05 20:17:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
due to the fact he was anti Catholic they would not make him a saint. only those that work at promoting God's love through the Rcc are sainted. besides it's not just "poof you're a saint" there is a very long process and so.... miracles are not attributed to him and the other atributes just aren't there either.
2006-09-06 13:00:29 · answer #6 · answered by Marysia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
quakers? martin luther wasn't a quaker!!! He broke away with the catholic church because the were doing things that weren't in the bible. (like making people pay money to be sin-free and stuff like that) the catholic church doesn't really like him because he exposed all their wrongdoings. why would they make him a saint? it would be an insult to lutherans
2006-09-05 13:24:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, making someone a saint makes the rest of the people 'lower' and they have less belief in themselves as a result. The Quaker tradition has no hierarchy and has dome more impressive things than the other sects.
2006-09-05 13:21:44 · answer #8 · answered by Chris cc 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I doubt if he would want it. And since he posted the Anti-Catholic document on the church door and steered thousands, and eventually millions from the Catholics, I doubt they'd want to.
2006-09-06 05:11:55 · answer #9 · answered by krissy_butterworth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah but first LaVey will be made a catholic saint.
2006-09-05 13:22:43 · answer #10 · answered by Sir Alex 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋