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Title: Corruption in the Catholic Church


1
Corruption in the Catholic Church
  • Beginnings of the Reformation

2
Humanism
  • Roman Catholic Church was the only means of
    salvation
  • Humanism focuses on human potential not a fated
    destiny
  • People began to question the Churchs validity

3
Struggle with Monarchs
  • Feudalism declines and monarchs rise
  • Church had to protect against monarchs
  • Endless wars Pope Julius II
  • Excommunication

4
Babylonian Captivity
  • Philip IV, France, attempted to tax the church
  • Boniface VIII, pope, threatened to excommunicate
    Philip
  • Philip sends troops to kidnap the pope
  • Boniface is released but trauma causes him to die
    shortly after
  • Philip influences a Frenchman, Clement V, into
    office
  • Papal office set up in Avignon, in present day
    Southern France
  • Seven popes ruled from France
  • Catholics lose respect for the papal position
  • Seen as a puppet of the French government

5
End of Babylonian Captivity
  • 1376, Pope Gregory XI moved the papacy back to
    Rome
  • In 1378, Gregory dies and Urban VI replaces him
  • Urbans behavior becomes unorthodox and begins to
    upset Cardinals

6
Great Schism
  • The Cardinals set up a separate election and
    elected a Frenchman, Clement VII to the papacy.
  • They set up the rival papacy in Avignon
  • Catholics begin to question the authority of the
    papal office when they now have two popes

7
Education and Chastity
  • Clergy were suppose to be educated
  • However many were illiterate
  • Nuns were takings lovers
  • Of 614 grants of legitimacy, 484 went to clergy
    members (1342-43)
  • Several popes raised children

8
Luxury
  • Many popes lived lives of luxury
  • Lived in palaces, jeweled robes, sumptuous meals
  • Giovanni Medici (Leo X, 1513), God has given us
    the papacy now let us enjoy it.
  • Sinners could repent by taking a pilgrimage
  • Clergy began to bring relics to people for a fee
  • Fees used to build Saxonys cathedral, castle,
    and university
  • Simony-selling church offices to the highest
    bidder

9
Indulgences
  • Sold indulgences to raise money
  • Sinners could confess their sin and then do a
    good deed or they could pay the church for the
    penance
  • This worked off time in purgatory
  • Originally they received a pardon from the pope,
    but eventually form letters were sold
  • Bankers worked in the churches to collect money
  • Many clergy taught that salvation was attainable
    by purchasing enough indulgences
  • Most corrupt clergy sold indulgences to the
    families of deceased Catholic who could be
    hanging in purgatory

10
Questions
  • Where do you think this corruption will lead?
  • Do you think the Catholic Church will change
    their ways when facing adversity?
  • How do the values of the Renaissance help to push
    forward a Reformation?
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