The start of the 16th century, many events led to the Protestant reformation. Clergy abuse caused people to begin criticizing the Catholic Church. The greed and scandalous lives of the clergy had created a split between them and the peasants.

Reformation art embraced Protestant values , although the amount of religious art produced in Protestant countries was hugely reduced. Instead, many artists in Protestant countries diversified into secular forms of art like history painting , landscapes, portraiture, and still life .

The Catholic Counter-Reformation led to renewed artistic energy in Rome, where art became an important vehicle for spreading the Catholic faith.

The movement exploded in Germany and spread throughout Europe. The idea of freedom from authority spread to the peasants who revolted against the nobility and royal oppressors. The leader of the Reformation, Martin Luther, did not support the efforts of the peasants.

Many of the local rulers of these small German states were dissatisfied with being subordinate to the power of the Holy Roman Emperor and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. They saw Luther’s new church, and the other protestant denominations that followed, as an avenue towards greater autonomy.

Catholics should never take Communion in a Protestant church, and Protestants (including Anglicans) should never receive Communion in the Catholic Church except in case of death or of “grave and pressing need”. There is much talk of pain and brokenness in the document.

The Vatican says more Anglicans have expressed an interest in joining the Catholic Church. The process will enable groups of Anglicans to become Catholic and recognize the pope as their leader, yet have parishes that retain Anglican rites, Vatican officials said.

Anglicanism, one of the major branches of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and a form of Christianity that includes features of both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. Although the Anglican Communion has a creed—the Thirty-nine Articles—it has been disposed to allow widely divergent interpretations.

Anglicans. Although “Holy water” is not a term used in official rites of the Church of England, font water is sanctified in the Church of England baptism rite. In many Anglican churches baptismal water is used for the asperges.

In the Anglican tradition, Mass is one of many terms for the Eucharist. More frequently, the term used is either Holy Communion, Holy Eucharist, or the Lord’s Supper. Occasionally the term used in Eastern churches, the Divine Liturgy, is also used. “Mass” is frequently used by Anglo-Catholics.

Given once for all, Baptism cannot be repeated. The baptisms of those to be received into the Catholic Church from other Christian communities are held to be valid if administered using the Trinitarian formula. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: 1256.

Anglicans believe the catholic and apostolic faith is revealed in Holy Scripture and the Catholic creeds and interpret these in light of the Christian tradition of the historic church, scholarship, reason, and experience.