How much of the clergy / priests opposed printing presses because they allowed the common masses to access information on a scale unprecedented at that time? M

How much of the clergy / priests opposed printing presses because they allowed the common masses to access information on a scale unprecedented at that time? Movable type was one of the causes and main tools of the Reformation and thus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion , so yes, there were huge consequences with lots of opposition. It’s complicated, of course. The clergy was not always against the spread of books, and the wars had many causes. But comparing cheap digital copying with cheap printing is pretty safe from a historical perspective.