Pope Alexander VI was the most corrupt Pope to have ever lived. His corrupt political policy as Pope was a large precursor to the beginning of the protestant reformation in 1536 and in many ways his corrupt reign also directly influenced the beginning of the Protestant reformation. ... The future Pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borgia, was a corrupt individual even before he had become Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. To show some of the most significant ways that Rodrigo was corrupt even before he was Pope, I have summarized some of his early life as religious leader and future Pope. ... In my o...

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For Luther to take this position required considerable courage on his part due to the fact he was facing an ecclesiastical force of great strength and authority. ... I have truly despised your see, the Roman Curia, which, however, neither you nor anyone else can deny is more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom ever was, and which, as far as I can see, is characterized by a completely depraved, hopeless, and notorious godlessness" (Luther and Dillenberge r 44-45). ...

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