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... These changes in the Catholic Church are exemplified with The Reformation during the 16th century when the populous wished to mold The Church into a more pure religion that was focused more on the worship of God and not the papacy. ... In the 16th century, Catholicism had become more of a business than a religion. ... On October 31st, 1517 Reverend Father Martin Luther “dealt the symbolic blow that began the Reformation when he nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church” (Lawrence1). ...
Under the rule of Edward XI, the Protestant party took the upper hand; they began to promote the Reformation in England according to the principles of Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin. ... There were many forms in which the reformers promoted the Reformation. ... They used the Reformation as a way for many to get rid of the obligations towards God, such as confession, penance fasting, abstinence, and vows, which had grown burdensome. ... The use of human emotion was a very large form in which the idea of reformation was spread. ...
“The Reformation destroyed the unity of faith and ecclesiastical organization of the Christian peoples of Europe, cut many millions off from the true Catholic Church, and robbed them of the greatest portion of the salutary means for the cultivation and maintenance if the supernatural life” (J.
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