The Decline of the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation

The Roman Catholic Church's decline during the Reformation was clearly not caused by a single event or action. Indeed, numerous self-inflicted and externally inflicted wounds were imposed in the Church. Self-inflicted wounds hurting the Church included the decline in papal credibility and ill will amongst clerical authority. The latter of these two wounds entailed regional biases among nearly every the archdiocese leading to a Great Schism in the Church. The externally inflicted wounds all had …

…and find out how to fix its externally-inflicted wounds. It is quite similar to what the current Pope is doing to restore tarnished relationships with the Greek and Russian (Eastern) Orthodox, as well as reconcile for amoral laxity during the Holocaust. The Church now and then realized the inevitability of change; it attempted to combat its own mistakes with progression, so disasters such as the exodus of the masses from the Church wouldn't happen again.