# Luther publishes On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

Date: 1520

## The fact

In October 1520 De captivitate Babylonica ecclesiae appeared. [Luther](/people/martin-luther) denied most of the seven sacraments as then administered and condemned withholding the cup from the laity.

## Context

This is the sacramental break in print, after the nobility address. Latin first, then vernacular spread.

## Evidence and sources

The 1520 text is in CCEL/Gutenberg. It establishes the published argument. It is not a council decree. Wikipedia is not used as a causal source.

## Significance

Corruption path: paid Masses and withheld communion as administrative extraction. He weakens that machine in argument, not by statute.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1520 treatise. Not established: immediate end of Mass stipends everywhere. Confidence high on the book.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality), FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through income-inequality, FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through income-inequality, FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through income-inequality, FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through income-inequality, FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through income-inequality, FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through income-inequality, FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through income-inequality, FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-10-06. Martin Luther's documented role is: He reduced the sacramental system in print, attacking the Mass as a priestly sacrifice-for-sale. The welfare reading is improving, through income-inequality, FDI weakening at weight 0.45 direction -1. Public attack on sacramental fees and withheld cup is an anti-extraction path inside church administration. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

## People

- Martin Luther: https://factrail.ai/people/martin-luther

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/137
- https://ccel.org/ccel/luther

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/luther-babylonian-captivity-1520