Anorthern renaissance writer who criticized the catholic church was william shakespeare. jan van eyck. albrecht dürer. desiderius erasmus.

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic cleric, social faultfinder, instructor, and scholar. Erasmus lived against the scenery of the developing European religious Reformation, however while he was incredulous of the misuse inside the Catholic Church and called for change, he stayed away from Luther and Melanchthon and kept on perceiving the expert of the pope, stressing a center path with a profound regard for conventional confidence, devotion and effortlessness, dismissing Luther's accentuation on confidence alone.

Upheld the 1st amendment according to the u.s constitution. freedom of speech being limited in this case yes national emergencies