Below are excerpts from a primary document which criticizes the Catholic Church in the period leading up to and during the Protestant Reformation. In your own words you are to 1) explain the criticism (summarize in your own words) and 2) explain the Reformation value being described by the criticism (i.e. no indulgences, too much papal power, corruption, and so on. This is very open ended, just be thorough in your explanation). Erasmus, the Dutch Humanist, 15th century What would St. Jerome say could he see the Virgin's milk exhibited for money, with as much honor paid to it as the consecrated body of Christ; the miraculous oil; the portions of the true cross, enough if they were collected to freight a large ship? Here we have the hood of St. Francis, there Our Lady's petticoat or St. Anne's comb, or St. Thomas of Canterbury's shoes; not presented as innocent aids to religion, but as the substance of religion itself—and all through the avarice of priests and the hypocrisy of monks playing on the credulity [naïveté] of the people. . . .

Below are excerpts from a primary document which criticizes the Catholic Church in the period leading up to and during the Protestant Reformation. In your own words you are to 1) explain the criticism (summarize in your own words) and 2) explain the Reformation value being described by the criticism (i.e. no indulgences, too much papal power, corruption, and so on. This is very open ended, just be thorough in your explanation). Erasmus, the Dutch Humanist, 15th century What would St. Jerome say could he see the Virgin's milk exhibited for money, with as much honor paid to it as the consecrated body of Christ; the miraculous oil; the portions of the true cross, enough if they were collected to freight a large ship? Here we have the hood of St. Francis, there Our Lady's petticoat or St. Anne's comb, or St. Thomas of Canterbury's shoes; not presented as innocent aids to religion, but as the substance of religion itself—and all through the avarice of priests and the hypocrisy of monks playing on the credulity [naïveté] of the people. . . .