Why was the catholic church so powerful in medieval europe?
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Because most of the people believe in Catholic
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They managed to monopolise the word of God and its interpretation.
If you want salvation from the horrible medieval life you will end up turning for the church to tell you what to do to get into heaven, that place which everyone tells you its incredibly amazing. This is because you cannot get this knowledge on your own by reading or even accessing the monopolised physical bibles of which only some kings and the church had hold of.
After the printed bibles started going out you see hundreds of small divisions of the Catholic faith, like the protestants, thus fragmenting the power of the church and weakening it.
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