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Pope Leo X. Pope Leo X. was not as strong a religious leader as one might assume the head of the Catholic Church is expected to be. His younger years had made an appearance in what he did later as a Pope. Later after becoming Pope, he made great contributions to the Catholic Church. Pope Leo X. in addition did not set the great example of a Pope as to whom one may assume a leader following in God’s path would lead and teach the people. It seemed as if he did the things he did in a selfish way rather than for his people as a Pope would do.
His childhood made an impact in what he did in his later years as a Pope. It was in a chamber of his historic house that Giovanni de’ Medici, afterwards Pope Leo X., first saw the light on 11th December 1475 …show more content…

“God has given us this papacy let us enjoy it” said to his closest associates and advisors. Leo X said: ‘Since God has given us the Papacy, let us enjoy it’. (Giovanni de Medici) And he did just that. (Giovanni de Medici) “Let us enjoy the Papacy since God has given it to us,” he is said to have remarked after his election. (Pope Leo X. Catholic) The pope’s income amounted between 500,000 and 600,000 ducats. (Pope Leo X. Catholic) The papal household alone, which Julius II had mentioned on 48,000 ducats, now cost double that sum. (Pope Leo X. Catholic) He has done a selfish act of later “Spending lots of money on different things for about 2 years, then the papacy becomes bankrupt”. (The Renaissance) ”Luther wrote in his 95 Theses, his criticism of the Church- “why doesn’t the Pope build the basilica of St Peter’s out of his own money?”” (The Characters) “In Germany this practice aroused the ire of Martin Luther, a humble monk, who issued ninety-five arguments for church reform. “(The Characters) “German nobles saw an opportunity to cut off currency flowing to Rome that was very much needed at home, so they backed Luther’s cause”. (The Character) “1520, Leo issued the papal bull expunge Domine demanding Luther .retract 41 of his 95 Theses, and after Luther’s refusal, excommunicated him.” (The Characters) “His attempt to prosecute Luther’s teaching on indulgences and ultimately to excommunicate him did not eradicate Lutheran doctrine, but, instead further splintered the Western

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