Who began the Catholic Reformation?

Answer 1

The Catholic Reformation started after the council of Constance in 1417. This council called for a reform of Catholisism from the pew to the pope. Regreatably for those invovlved, it didn't say how it was to be instituted. This led to a chaotic and often contradictory series of reforms organized by numerous religious leaders which in the end accomplished little to nothing.

After Martin Luther, the Catholic church doubled the size of the College of Cardinals in an attempt to bring reform into the church by allowing for new ideas from Bishops, Caridinals, from numerous parts of Europe. This series of appointments lasted from around 1535 to around 1536, and was called The Great Consistories. This movement also created a commitee to study what was damaging Catholism, the report said that the Pope's recent actions were likely to blame.

The Jesuits, an education frocoused reform order of priests, was founded in 1540 to fight Protestantism. This order hoped to educate people in order to prevent them from becoming protestant. It was a zealous order which did much missionary work in England, and in European Colonies.

The COuncil of Trent was organized in the 1540's, it was intially delayed by King Francis I, in order to define Catholic doctorine in a clearer fashion. This council, actually a series of councils from 1545 to 1563, condemned the idea of sola scriptora, the belief that the Bible was the only source of truth, and stated that both sacred tradition and the Bible were neccessary for a full understanding of God and his relationship with mankind.

The council of Trent also emphasised the need for better education of priests in theology, not considered neccessary in the Medieval church, by calling for seminaries to be created. It was a far more successful council than Clement because it was far more organized and better executed. The movement also helped create the Baroque artistic movement in Europe.

The Catholic Reformation was begun nearly 100 years before Luther's thesis, and wasn't really began by any one individual. It ended the great schism, 3 different men claimed to be pope, and began a series of reform movements which became better defined thru later church councils.

Originally the Catholic reformation movement was NOT reactionary. It was called to solve problems within the church. Later, during the 16th century, it was restarted with greater urgency due to the Protestant Reformation.

*Dates may be slightly off*

Answer 2

Who Began The Catholic Reformation

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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It is usually called the Catholic Counter Reformation, a reaction to the Protestant Reformation sparked by Luther. It was an attempt to buttress up the besieged Catholic Church by dealing with issues of corruption and doctrine and also the founding of religious orders to go out and win new converts. It was started by Pope Paul III.

Answer 5

Correction...............it was called the Protestant Deformation



Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."

"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.

Source(s):
Against the Reformers
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online

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Answer 6

Martin Luther, who nailed his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg in 1519. One could point to Jan Hus in Bohemia, 1410, but Jan Hus did not deny transubstantiation. As long as he did not do that, he could be logically refuted in his arguments. About the same time as Luther was John Calvin, who took a different tack away from sacramental Christianity. Also, soon after, Henry VIII was encouraged to establish his own church of England.

Answer 7

Martin Luther

Answer 8

John Wycliffe - oxford university scholar
John Huss - supporter of Wycliffe
Martin Luther - Lutheran

Answer 9

Actually the early church allowed Priests to be married. It was not until later that the church banned it. Priests including Bishops were allowed to marry until 1139 when the Second Lateran Council made celibacy an official requirement for priesthood.

Answer 10

Why do people when they talk about the Reformation never mention Huldrych Zwingli and Conrad Grebel?