Essays About The Protestant Reformation

In the sixteenth century the Protestant Reformation took place in Northern Europe and put an end to the unity of the Roman Catholic Church. This movement started when a man by the name of Martin Luther got frustrated with what was going on around him such as corrupt practices and posted his 95 Theses on…

` The Reformation was a movement against the Catholic Church in the early 1500’s. The Counter-Reformation was a movement by the Catholic Church to ignite the passion that was once contagious in Europe, but had seemed to die down. In 1483 some would say that the greatest reformer of all time was born. Martin Luther…

All Souls Day, November 2nd, does anyone really understand why it is a holy day or is it just another meaningless holiday Catholics are asked to attend church? All Souls Day is a day that the Catholic Church has set aside to help pray for all the souls not yet joined with god. During this…

At around 1500 many northern humanists had thought that the Roman Catholic church lost the spiritual mission Jesus had proclaimed in his lifetime. They said that the popes acted as political warriors instead of being moral leaders. The church as a whole thought that money was more important than saving souls. This created a new…