This occurred during what is known as the Dark Ages of Europe and there are multiple reasons for how the Catholic Religion helped give this period in history its" name. During the time the Catholic clergy fell into depths of evil and darkness that will never be truly known. This falter wasn't in only one aspect of the church but in many ranging in financial, social, and political corruption. These areas of corruption didn't just apply to the way the church ran but was applied to the daily lives of the Pope down to the common nun or priest. A good way to sum up the Catholic church around 1454 was given by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II, when he said, " I prefer to be silent and I could wish that my opinion may prove entirely wrong and that I may be called a liar rather than a true prophet For I have no hope that what I should like to see will be realized; I cannot persuade myself that there is anything good in prospect Christianity has no head whom all will obey. Neither the pope nor the emperor is accorded his rights. There is no reverence and no obedience; we look on pope and emperor as figureheads and empty titles. Every city state has its king and there are as many princes as there are households" (Bokenkotter 194). This was not from an outside person but from the future Pope. If things were so bad for him, imagine how bad they were for the common peasant in Europe.
The problems within the church were many. Of these problems against the church "the first and sorest was that she loved money, and had too much of it for her own good" wrote author Will Durant (17). There is no documentation that exists today to give the exact wealth of the church during the Dark Ages but historians have speculated about the total wealth of the Catholic Church around the 1500's. "Documents have been found that may suggest that the Church's share of the wealth made up anywhere from a fifth to three-quarters in each country of England, France, and Germany.
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"Counter - Reformation denotes the period of Catholic revival" which Luther was determined to do. ... It contained a series of grievances opposing the Holy Roman Catholic Empire's way of catholic life, in which Luther was determined to reform. ... Its aim was to clearly define the Catholic doctrine once and for all, which was also known as the Counter Reformation - better known as the Catholic Reformation. ... The Reformation and the Counter/Catholic Reformation was the intellectual counter-force to Protestantism. The Catholic Reformation occurred after the Reformation, because the Catho...
