principal abuses of vows and callings by elements of the Roman Catholic clergy

1) Specify the principal abuses of their vows and callings by elements of
> the Roman Catholic clergy which distressed men like Luther who wanted Pope
> Leo X to act to reform the Church.
>
> Then, detail the essential elements of their forms Luther implemented when
> he initiated his own Church after Leo and his immediate successors strove
> to suppress the reformers rather than answering their criticisms.
> Finally, what motivated many German princes to risk ruin by defying Rome
> and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, master of Europe’s foremost empire,
> to support Luther, actions that precipitates a bloody cycle of religious
> wars between Catholics and Protestants which ravaged Europe from the 1530s
> to 1648?
>

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Martin Luther was a professor at the University of Wittenberg in the field of biblical interpretations. His works are widespread especially as he is the principle leaders that led to the establishment of Lutheranism, which is a form of Protestantism. In 1517, he came up with 95 works that criticized the Catholic Church for its corrupt practices that involved the selling of the forgiveness of sins, otherwise referred to as “indulgence”. The popes claimed to that they could indeed guarantee a slot in heaven for both the living and dead were they to be given a fee. His almost explicit works, combined with the notoriety of the Roman……………..

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