According to the Text, the Main Reason Why the Church

According to the text, the main reason why the church did not immediately condemn Luther was

A) political; the pope had to weigh the influence of the Elector of Saxony, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the kings of Spain, France, and England.
B) intellectual; the initial support that much of the Catholic clergy gave Luther.
C) Cultural; officials in Rome could not take the activities of a German monk seriously.
D) institutional; the internal weakness of the Church; the papacy was being challenged by the Conciliar Movement.
E) social; the limited impact Luther's ideas were having.