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The Catholic Church: Changes and Compliants (Vocabulary (Simony, Nepotism,…
The Catholic Church: Changes and Compliants
Changes Affecting the Churches
Exploration
Europeans center the world
Europe, Africa, and Asia
Columbus, Magellan, and others forced to reexamine their place
Trade stimulated by these new explantions
Growth of cities
Increased wealth
New class of Merchants
Disruption of class system
Clergy, nobility, and peasants
Capitalize on the opportunities for business and personal wealth
Greatly affected the power structure of the society
Humanism
Scholars reached back to Greek and Roman philosopher and writers
New cultural and intellectual movement
Belief that the human intellect was a powerful force for change and improvement
Questions
Complaints Against the Church
Clerical corruption
Church and politics
Clergy had become corrupt as noble families paid for bishoprics and than demanded interests be served
Many bishops held more than one office
High taxes charged by bishops to support Pope and his projects
Popes and Cardinals often lived more like kings than spiritual leaders.
Popes commanded armies, made political alliances and enemies, and sometimes even waged war
Problems with Popes
1378-1417 two popes claimed leadership
Urban VI, once again ruled Rome, but impeached because was moody
Urban continued to act as a pope in Rome
Council agreed on a compromise candidate
Kicked out others
Reinstated papacy in Rome
Indulgences
Church sought to raise money to support itself
Vocabulary
Simony
Nepotism
Temporal Power
Papal Schism
Cardinals
Impeached
Bishopic
Indulgence
Bishop
Purgatory
Humanism
Clergy