Rome part 2

Henry VIII and Martin Luther both in their ways upended the Roman Catholic church. And evidence of why lies in the magnificent palaces in Rome, some of them paid for by ‘Indulgences’. A wealthy sinner could avoid eons in purgatory by buying an Indulgence. Martin Luther attacked this practice and started the Reformation.

Henry VIII seems to have been motivated to destroy the English monasteries partly driven by avarice, partly by revenge with a soupcon of ego and politics thrown in.