Give three reasons why people called for reforms in the Catholic Church.

Answer 1

While there was many reason that cause a reformation to happen in that time, the three main points are as followed. The first one is that the Church at the time only printed the bible in Latin, which was only learn by priest instead of the common language depending on the area. The issue here was that this allow for control and censorship which keep from allowing the belief that were espouse from being question. The second issue where that the Church sold "indulgences" which allow for those who brought to be absolve from sin. This cause a disparity rich and poor, as well as not being a practice found in the bible. The third major issue was that teaching of Christianity was allow by those who didn't study the teaching, if they had enough money to pay for it. This caused a lot of contradictions on what was being taught

Answer 2

Reasons for reform of the Catholic Church began before and extended beyond Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses. For example, John Wycliff made the claims that priests were unnecessary for salvation during the late 14th century in England. (an idea which would carry over into Protestantism) Like others, he both called for and actually translated the Bible into English for the people, which he was attacked by the Church for doing. When the Black Death swept across Europe, some believers even looked at the Church as failing to stop it or save them from it. It was also known that the Church suffered from corruption that even it couldn't control.

While John Tetzel's sale of the "Get Out of Hell" free cards, or indulgences was based on a scale equal to your income, it also created the problem of following scripture. In other words, was there any point to actually following scripture, the Ten Commandments, or the teachings of Christ if you could just buy your way into a better after life? Luther's attack on this religious scheme also meant political opportunities for monarchs around Europe. Protestantism wasn't just an opportunity to break away from the Catholic Church, it was a chance for rulers to choose the religion of their people, free themselves from paying their wealth or service to the Church, and provide them with the opportunity to seize wealthy church lands.

And if you are Henry VIII it provided you with the opportunity to set up a new church in England with yourself at the head of it so you could get annulments to try to get that male heir.