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Explain why Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in the 1500's.

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Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously defiant. For his refusal to recant his writings, the emperor declared him an outlaw and a heretic.
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