The Catholic Church in the early 16th century
yellow = positives
orange = negatives
blue = neutral
- Created by: Rosie Young
- Created on: 13-02-13 17:10
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- The Catholic Church, 1500s
- universal faith of western Europe
- the church had always been criticised for abuses
- there had been worse periods of corruption
- the Church had proved it could adapt
- the reformers of the 16th century criticised the Church's fundamental teachings
- there wasn't always evidence to support the reformers claims
- generally positive view of the Church
- growing anti-papal feeling
- money was raised through simony and pluralism
- papal authority was challenged by influential italian families
- the Pope lived in luxury
- ignorance of the clergy
- Higher clergy
- some lived luxurious lifestyles
- absenteeism
- not living in your benefice or diocese
- pluralism
- holding more than one diocese
- unlikely to be totally ignorant
- most had a reasonable level of education
- monasteries and convents
- in spiritual decline
- lax discipline, ignorance of prayers, inability to read, breaking vows of celibacy
- too many religious houses, too few monks
- admission to a monastery required no education
- groups of monks sometimes created stricter versions of their original rule
- Augustinians
- Franciscans
- Lower clergy
- many problems with priests who couldn't read or say basic prayers
- harder to access bursaries
- very low entry standards
- often of the same class as their neighbours
- failed to keep celibate
- Higher clergy
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