How did the catholic church respond to the Reformation in the Renissance?

Question

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Answer 1

They rouned up a lot of reformers and killed them.

They also stopped selling indulgences - things that said "if you pay the Catholic Church a bunch of money, we'll guarantee you go to heaven". The Catholic Church was pretty corrupt back then.

Answer 2

In some respects, the church actually made important advances - even though it moved like molasses. And it is probably impossible to differentiate the influences of the Reformation from the Enlightenment/Renaissance.

For example, the catholic church eventually realized that man should be allowed to use his intellect (this decision was based upon arguments from Pico and others (before Luther), that such intellect is obviously god-given) to think about various matters - even previously forbidden theological and philosophical matters.

This led to decisions such as masses performed in languages other than Latin, and even having the bible printed in languages other than Latin. Luther undoubtedly influenced many advances as well.

Before the enlightenment, the catholic church was so deluded that it actually inhibited intellectual progress (at least in the west) for as much as 1000 years.

Answer 3

The history of the Catholic Church has people making terrible mistakes but it also has the Holy Spirit Who has worked with these mistakes and has helped the Church survive. The Church has learned from these mistakes.
The real question today is "How does the Catholic Church respond to the needs of people today?"
Mistakes will continue to be made but like Peter who also made terrible mistakes, the Lord is willing to work with those who are open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

Peace!
History books tell us that the Catholic Church countered with their own counter reformation.
Some good came out of the Protestant Reformation. Reforms were made in the Catholic Church. In fact, I will not be surprised if one day the Catholic Church will declare Martin Luther a saint. He was an Augustinian priest, you know.

Answer 5

The Reformation was based upon dissenters denying many of the Vatican's dogma. Among those beliefs was to deny the authority that the Pope has over the church.

The church's response to them was drastic, hateful, and murderous. The followers of the Pope set out to round up the reformists and kill them.

The Catholic Church made Martyrs out of Bible believing Christians, by the thousands.

Answer 6

It seems to me that the Renaissance was a response to the Roman Catholic Church because of the Reformation. Granted, not all was for God, but freedom for men to actually think outside the repressive religion of dark age catholicism took place because of men like Martin Luther. Notice that he was never sainted by the popes.

Answer 7

By encouraging the states to wage a war of religion. ex St Barthelemy's massacre in France.

Answer 8

Once the common man had the Bible they had to stop saying "because we say so" so they began trying to find Bible verses to support their doctrines. Their best move was to say, "we have the ability to change what the Bible says." Then they didn't have to worry about little things like contradicting Scripture.

Answer 9

Catholic Church replaced latin with double-talk.....

Answer 10

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