Problems in the Church

 Daily Objectives:

•  Journal: click here for journal prompt!
•  Review 
•  Church Problems Notes and MME
•  Spider graph: organize the notes into your own categories. What were the problems of the Church and how were they solved?

Main ideas:

 People felt that the Church was becoming too focused on money and power. They looked for better ways to be faithful and not betray the Church.

 The Charter of Cluny removed kings from religious decisions.

 Words worth knowing:

 Monastic Movement:  Many, led by Benedict, moved to monasteries and convents to live lives that were more like the life lives by Jesus.

 Monastery at Cluny, France:  where the church reform movement began.  Tried to get the church and its followers to be more Christ-like.

 Francis of Assisi:  Italian monk who gave up everything to serve the poor and others in need.  Formed the Franciscan Friars.

 Friars:  a new kind of monk who lived in towns with the people rather than in a monestary, and helped the poor, the sick, orphans and others.

 Problems in the Catholic Church

­Simony--the buying and selling of church positions. Anybody could be a church official, even if he was a bad person.

­Married priests and/or priests fathering children.  Priests were sworn to be celibate (never marry or have sex)

Lay Investiture:  when a king names his own bishops.  King did not name holy men, instead named men he could control.

For the MME in class if you were gone or need to review: click here.