The Reformation

There comes a time in everybody's life where they begin to wonder about the world. Babies often wonder what lies in behind the couch. Children grow to question why their parents make them go to bed at nine o-clock on a school night. Teenagers often question and dispute curfews imposed on them by their dictorial parents. Adults even question the authority of their higher ups sometimes, which unfortunately more often than not leads to early dismissal from a job. All of this questioning happens often now in the twenty first century, for we live in a free world, where we can pretty much do as we please and say what we want within our modern legal limits. This was not the way in the sixteenth century in Rome. Rome was basically headed by the Catholic Church, which was headed by the Pope. Nothing was ever questioned, or at least not in public or out in the open. …