Catholic Church Reformation

Today there are many types of Protestants and Roman Catholic Churches. For example Anglicans, Lutheran, Calvinist, and there are many more, but during the sixteenth century those churches were the major reforms of the Protestant and Roman Catholic Reformations. You may ask yourself why? Well the purpose of this essay is to find out what caused the reformation, How did the reformers attempt to change the church and what where the effects on the reformation. Before the Reformation took place, the Roman Catholic Church was very powerful politically and spiritually in Western Europe. The popes and clergy that ruled the church began to live the fancy lifestyle at the expense of the people. The Church increased fees, and began selling indulgence
Other reformers like, John Calvin and Henry VIII also challenged the pope’s authority and questioned the Catholic Church’s ability to define Christian practice.
The sixteenth century the Protestant Reformation which was a European movement allowed religious reformers to break way to their own churches. The Reformation began with the Council of Trent from 1545 through 1563 in which restated that salvation required good works as well as faith.
The Roman Catholic Church responded to the Protestant challenges by purifying itself of the abuse and corruption in the administration of the Church that had opened the way to revolt, this was known as the counter-reformation. Therefore, Luther and the other reformers with the power of the printing press it helped to spread their ideas to a wide audience. The reformation era is the most important period in the entire history of Roman Catholicism. It helped to reform the beliefs and values of the Roman Catholic
The protestant reformation movement enabled the Counter Reformation for the Roman Catholic’s and greatly influenced many changes, but most importantly the spread of “nearly 21,000 independent churches denominations, falling under 156 main groups”. (Fisher 335) during the reformation area Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglicans, Protestant and Roman Catholics were the major reforms of the Protestant and Roman Catholic Reformations. The main idea of the reformations was to break away to form their own