Familiar political promises

Usage examples of reforms.

But the fact is, that such reforms never would or could have satisfied the spirit of the age.

Still more, however, does it embody the reforms proposed at Nuremberg in 1523.

It is noticeable that Erasmus selected this point rather than one of the practical reforms advocated at Wittenberg, with which he was much in sympathy.

John succeeded to the title, and came out openly for all the reforms advocated at Wittenberg.

Other reforms included the abolition of processions, of confirmation and of extreme unction.

At most it was of some use as a basis of reforms made by the Council of Trent later.

Among the reforms he accomplished were some regulations relating to the residence of bishops and some rules for the bridling of Jews, usurers, prostitutes, players and mountebanks.

The reforms of Sixtus are important rather for their comprehensive than for their drastic quality.

At the same time the moral reforms of Trent were laxly carried out, for while decrees enforcing them were promulgated by Sixtus with one hand, with the other he sold dispensations and privileges.

The argument was then taken up by the Emperor Ferdinand who sent in an imposing demand for reforms, including the authorization of the marriage of priests, communion in both kinds, the use of the vulgar tongue in divine service, and drastic rules for the improvement of the convents and of the papal courts.

According to Sarpi the body of German Catholics paid no attention to the prescribed reforms and the council was openly mocked in France as claiming an authority superior to that of the apostles.

Sweeping decrees for urgent reforms were passed, and above all a machinery set up to carry on the good work.

Not the least of the practical reforms was the provision for the opening of seminaries to train the diocesan clergy.

The very fact that he said much good of Luther, and approved of many of his practical reforms, made his protest the more effective.

Mohammed has been a favorite subject for comparison with Luther by the Catholics, but in truth, in no disparaging sense, the proclamation of Islam, with its monotheism, emphasis on faith and predestination, was very like the Reformation, and so were several later reforms within Mohammedanism, including two in the sixteenth century.