[markomalley]

Since we've had to endure some inaccurate "history" over the past few days, I decided that we needed a little fair and balanced view of the "reformation." Let me know if you'd like to me notified of further installments (four more in total).

[InterestedQuestioner]

"In the light of recent researches it should hardly be necessary to emphasize that these abuses do not give the whole picture of the medieval Church. Its darker aspects are relieved by so many bright lights that it is not possible to take a pessimistic view of it as a whole."

You've posted a scathing critique of the Church in the centuries immediatley prior to the Protestant Reformation. I appreciate seeing this, however, I think this footnote speakes volumes. Also, the state of the Church outside of Germany and Rome is not treated in the article. For example, the article does not mention the situation of the Church in Greece, Spain, and Ireland, three Christian countries where the Protestant Reformation won little indigenous support.