how effectively did francis i deal with calvanism

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How efficiently did Francis deal with religious issues?

During Francis’ reign there were divisions in the Catholic Church and Christian religion. These divisions include the protestant movement, humanism and heresy.

Francis wasn’t as efficient as he could have been, but overall he did a rather decent job and achieved most of his aims, although there were some issues he wasn’t to efficient in dealing with.

 In October 1534, notices appeared around Paris that were protesting against and denouncing the papal mass. Before this event, Francis was rather tolerant of the groups that had broken away from the Roman Catholic Church. Francis seen this as a plot against him, so he prosecuted followers of the protestant faith and there were protestant executions. This dealt with the Protestants rather well as it gave them fear as to what might happen if they were found out. Although it wasn’t hard for them to hide it and keep it too themselves, so this didn’t stop the problem at all. Francis introduced censorship into the printing of the Calvinist books. This forced john Calvin into exile from France. John Calvin was exiled to Geneva. This didn’t stop the books from being published, as now john Calvin was out of France. And he could operate there, and as Geneva is outside of France, Francis couldn’t do a thing about it. So the censorship and forceful exile didn’t improve things much either. Calvinism is a form of Protestantism. Protestants believe in justification by faith alone, and do not agree with the catholic papal authority. Protestants believe that the Roman Catholic Church is going about Christian religion all wrong. They believe that a lot of the practices that the Catholic Church bides by are absolutely unnecessary. And that the Catholic Church does not follow the bible like they should and that the Roman Catholic Church is far too corrupt. Francis didn’t really deal with the protestant/ Calvinist issues very well, but to be honest, there wasn’t much anyone could do about it. So Francis did the best he possibly could, the problem was that this wasn’t enough.

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 When it came to dealing with humanism, Francis didn’t fail to too much extent, in fact, if anything he was rather successful in dealing with the issue. Humanists believed in affirming the dignity and worth of all people, based on their ability to determine right and wrong. They reject the belief of anything supernatural helping/resolving human affairs. But do not reject the supernatural themselves, just that they choose to reject that the supernatural effect human affairs. Francis at first did have a problem with differentiating between humanism and heresy. Francis didn’t really have much of a problem with humanism. They ...

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