
What factors contributed to Martin Luther’s eventual rebellion against the Church?
by Rev. Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI (Fall, 2017) As Protestants around the world (and modernist heretics in the Vatican) celebrate this year the 500th anniversary of the Protestant revolt against the Catholic Church, it behooves us Catholics to re-examine the life and teachings of the apostate monk who began the so-called “Reformation.” Just who was Martin Luther, and what led him to abandon his vocation and the Catholic Faith? What effect did Luther’s abusive father have on his personality? Martin Luther was born in the German town of Eisleben on November 10, 1483. Not long after his birth, the family moved to Mansfeld, some 10 miles to the northwest of Eisleben, where his father had part ownership of a copper mine. Hans, Luther’s father, was of a most stern, irascible character, and had even been accused of homicide, causing him to flee from his family home in Mohra. Luther’s mother