Well, the Catholic Church itself did not really change its doctorines. The Church is incapable of changing doctrines, as they are revealed by God, and not something made up by people. Some of the people within the Catholic Church were abusing the doctorines and practices around the time of the reformation. For example, some people were buying and selling indulgences, which is condemmed by the Catholic Church. Many Protestant Reformers were unhappy about these types of abuses.
According to the Catholic Church, members of the orthodox Churches are technically schismatics, because they do not recognize the pope but have the same basic beliefs. Protestants are technically heretics because they do not believe certain doctrines of the Catholic Church.
According to the Catholic Church, members of the orthodox Churches are technically schismatics, because they do not recognize the pope but have the same basic beliefs. Protestants are technically heretics because they do not believe certain doctrines of the Catholic Church.
Protestants are called protestants because they PROTESTED against the catholic church because Henry viii was catholic but he wanted a divorce but the catholics would not let him, so he started his own church( church of England) and they were called the protestants, also you can not be protestant and catholic.
False. The Council of Trent was convened for the very purpose of responding to the doctrines of the Protestants and to reform the legitimate abuses in Church practice that had crept into the Church.
Because they protested against the Catholic church.
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Luther was a Catholic monk .
You have the Roman Catholic Church, Protestants, Jewish and Muslims, the Roman Catholic Church is the majority.
The primary difference was that the Protestants argued that the ability to interpret the Bible rested with the individual believer and not the Church establishment. Therefore, the only thing that was relevant in knowing God was the Bible and not Church doctrines.
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