Catholic Renewal Movement

The Catholic renewal movement was not merely a reaction - a Counter-Reformation - to the Reformation. Before Luther, there was already sharp criticism of the church that may be illustrated by the Italian proverb that the person who goes to Rome will lose his or her faith, and by the acrostic for Rome, R[adix] O[mnium] M[alorum] A[varitia]: “love of money is the root of all evil.”

 

Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations, 2nd Edition (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 321