Use the following excerpt from the decrees of the Twenty-Fifth Council of Trent (1563) to answer the question: Whereas the power
of conferring Indulgences was granted by Christ to the Church...the sacred holy Synod teaches, and enjoins, that the use of Indulgence... is to be retained in the Church; and It condemns with anathema those who either assert, that they are useless; or who deny that there is in the Church the power of granting them. In granting them, however, It desires that, in accordance with the ancient and approved custom in the Church, moderation be observed.... And...that all evil gains for the obtaining thereof,--whence a most prolific cause of abuses amongst the Christian people has been derived,--be wholly abolished.-- Excerpt from the decrees of the Twenty-Fifth Council of Trent, 1563 This decree was a response to which Protestant reform?
This passage we can say is a direct response the critique of indulgences raised by the Protestant reform.
In other words this could be a direct answer to Martin Luther and his 95 thesis, in which the selling of the indulgences, that is the forgiveness of sins in exchange of money, was the main issue. The Church states that the Christ himself gave the right to them to sell the indulgences and that that is the time-honored tradition.
he Founding Fathers of the United States led the American Revolution against the Kingdom of Great Britain. Most were descendants of colonists settled in the Thirteen Colonies in North America. George Washington is chief among them, being the Father of the Homeland. Historian Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as the key Founding Fathers (in short yess)
