1. Do Now
Imagine that a friend of yours is making choices that you think are not right. How would you react? Discuss with a partner.

2. Do Now
In the 1300s and 1400s, many followers disagreed with the Catholic Church – and some even left the church altogether.

3. Table of Contents Update
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4. Learning Target
I can explain the significance of the causes for the internal turmoil within the Catholic Church. I can explain what led to the weakening of the Catholic Church including tax policies, selling of indulgences, and England’s break with the Catholic Church.

5. How did internal differences weaken the Catholic Church?
Guiding Question
How did internal differences weaken the Catholic Church?

6. Trouble for the Catholic Church
From 1378 to 1417, the power of the Roman Catholic Church was divided.
A major cause of the split was the decision of Pope Clement V to move the Catholic government from Rome, Italy to Avignon, France.

7. Trouble for the Catholic Church
This split is known as the Great Schism.
Popes in Rome and Avignon demanded obedience from the faithful and excommunicated the rival pope’s followers.
This caused confusion and doubt among Christians and weakened the Church.

8. Healing the Church
In 1414, the Holy Roman Emperor called a conference to end the conflict and heal the church.
The conference took place in Germany from

9. Healing the Church
Church officials decided to remove the French pope and persuaded the Roman pope to resign.
In 1417, they elected Pope Martin V.
Based in Rome
Began to unify the church

10. How did the Great Schism weaken the Catholic Church?
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How did the Great Schism weaken the Catholic Church?

11. Collaborative Groups
Cut the passages out and glue them as flaps onto p. in your SMARTbook.
Read the passages together and discuss the questions that follow.
Answer each question on your SMARTbook page underneath the flap.

12. Criticism of the Church
The efforts of the church to heal itself strengthened the pope’s authority. Even so, the Church fell short on its efforts to reform (change). There was distrust between Church officials and the pope, and believers were uncertain of the church’s authority. Throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, demands for reform grew more intense. Over the centuries, the medieval Church had become an enormous institution. By some estimates, the Church owned from one-fifth to one-third of all of the lands in Europe. Church leaders needed huge sums of money to maintain such an institution.

13. Text-Dependent Question Review
Why did the Catholic Church need money?
The Church needed money because it owned so much land in Europe and needed money to maintain its buildings and pay its leaders.

14. A Corrupt Church
Critics and reformers were angered by some of the ways in which the Church earned and spent its money. Many Europeans, especially those who lived outside Italy, disliked paying taxes to the Church in Rome. They were also upset that the Church paid no taxes on its vast landholdings. Reformers also objected to the sale of indulgences. An indulgence was a pardon for a sin. People bought indulgences to avoid punishment by God in the afterlife. Reformers were enraged that the Church would act as if someone could buy their way into heaven.

15. Text-Dependent Question Review
What two financial practices within the Catholic Church were reformers most upset about? Taxes and the paying of indulgences

16. Text-Dependent Question Review
What was the purpose of paying an indulgence to the Catholic Church? The Catholic Church said that if a person payed an indulgence, they would receive forgiveness for something they did wrong.

17. How the Church Spent Money
Critics also did not like the way the Church spent money. During the Renaissance, many popes spent large sums supporting the arts and their own personal pleasure. Other Church officials followed their example. People from all levels of society, including nobles, townspeople, and peasants, began to call on the Church to emphasize spiritual over material values.

18. Text-Dependent Question Review
Why did members of the Catholic Church think that popes should not spend church funds on arts and their own personal pleasure? People believed that the Church’s focus should be on spiritual matters, not material things.