It is the most powerful political institution, religious institution, financial institution in the whole wide world. And it controls the keys to the kingdom. If you belong to the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church has the say of where you're going when you die. So there's a lot of power and there's a lot of people that are kind of beholden to its power. But you also have some other things that are swirling around that are eroding its power slowly that are leading up to this Protestant Reformation. One thing would be the Renaissance, kind of this artistic spiritual awakening in cities that has already been going on for a couple hundred years. So people are being exposed to new types of art and new types of thinking that focuses more on the personal rather than the church and its power.