Roman Catholics: About The Protestant Reformation?

Question

Roman Catholics seem to look at it Like some kind of Tragedy.
But who's Fault REALLY was it?

F.Y.I. Im Not a Catholic or a Protestant.

Answer 1

I'm Catholic and don't see it as a tragedy.

Yes the RC Church was a mess and needed reformation. You're missing the history where the RC Church did reform to the standards of M. Luther. He called for unity in scripture. He called to make Mass in the native language (English, Germanic, Swahelli, Yiddish, etc). He called to worship through a common readings (Lecturaries).

The ironic part is that the RC Church has done a 180 degrees (since the 1600's) and meets most all of M. Luthers wishes for reforms. She (RC Church) has been evolving towards this and gets stronger with councils, and vatican reformations and unifications. The M. Luther branch has digressed to what M. Luther was running away from and it seems that a new branch of Christainity pop's up with ease. In the lack of unifying, the M. Luther's are getting thinner by each separation all because someone belives they have it all to save without reaching out to their brothers and sisters. Well, I guess this is a tragedy since Jesus comands us to love each other.

Answer 2

No question there were some hard times and even some bad Pope's this is part of history, we even talk about it and study it in RCIA, (Catholic preparation) class.

We do not hold that the Pope is perfect, he is human, all Pope's have been human. We only hold that he is infallible when talking about faith and morals.

Look around, in ANY group of people there are going to be some bad ones, there are bad Preachers and Baseball Coaches as well.

What you need to get down to is ask where is my best chance for salvation and who has the tools to make me a better person and stay in the Grace of God.

For me, even though not all Catholics (just like not all Christians, Muslims, Buddhist, Atheist, etc.) are perfect, I find perfection in the faith itself. That is why I became Catholic.

I am not perfect either, but try to do better every day. Expecting perfection out of humans will only disappoint you.

Peace and God Bless!

Answer 3

Before the reformation there was only 3 churches. Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental. All 3 churches recognize each other as legitimate churches. Church of Alexandria became Oriental(coptic) not orthodox. Church of Antioch is a different issue since there are Catholic and Oriental legitimate succecors. Orthodox only have Constantinople and legitimate claims to Jerusalem along with the Catholics.

Answer 4

well i was raised catholic but no longer practice. and i can say that this one was most definitely the catholics fault. one of the main reasons for the PR was something called indulgences. it was extremely expensive to run the papacy and maintain there power. they made alliances with some of the richest families (the medicis) of the day. but still they needed more. so they started selling indulgences. which were basically donations that forgave one's sins. the more you donated the more sins were forgiven.
well that angered the poor catholics something fierce because they were led to believe that only a pious, religious life was the path to heaven. and come to find out you could live the life of a scoundrel and sinner so long as you had the bank account to back it up.
so they revolted. led my martin luther they aired their grievances and when they were not answered they formed their own church that was not subbordinate to the pope.

Answer 5

When one decides to follow the doctrines of men instead of Christ's Church then it is a tragedy for those who are lost into the false teaching of the traditions of men. The Reformation was a triumph of humanism above Christianity and was a travesty for the faithful. False doctrines perpetrated by Reformers such as Sola Scriptura have resulted in exponentially increasing schisms within the Body of Christ.

Answer 6

The Reformation was one of the great events in Christendom. Martin Luther, an Augustine monk, who suffered greatly under the idea that he had to atone for his sins and make himself worthy of God, an idea propagated by the Roman church. Finally, a fellow monk gave him the words of Scripture that changed his life forever, "The just shall live by faith". Luther really thought he could reform the church from within and move them back to the Bible. When he came to Rome and saw what the church was doing, indulgences and such, he realized it wouldn't happen. He nailed his 95 thesis on the door of the church in Whittenberg, as a protest against the Catholic Church and the unbiblical things it was engaged in. This began the reformation movement, to move Christendom back to its biblical roots, and away from the flawed traditions of man. We owe a great debt of gratitude to such saints as Luther, Calvin, Knox, Edwards and Zwingli. Without their courage and refusal to compromise the Scriptures, we would all still be under the yoke and bondage of Rome.

Answer 7

it was the fault of the Roman Catholic church ultimately.

Not that it could have been stopped though.

Eventually an organization that huge would have split apart - it's just by the grace of God that both sides are still close in spirit.

Answer 8

"F.Y.I. Im Not a Catholic or a Protestant."

Sure you're not protestant, because you sound like one.

Answer 9

only a tragedy for the catholics....martin Luther and the people were fed up with the pope telling them what was in the Bible and denying the common man the right to read the word of God....the protestant reformation is/was Christians that chose to follow the word of God and not the word of the pope....

the emperor has no clothes....

Answer 10

It is an event in history. The term tragedy... perhaps, and likely it is a result of those who were not true to the faith on both sides.