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Summarize the Catholic reform and the Council of Trent please
ice they held, opPposed this "conciliarism" vehemently, but the resulting dead-
reation of the Holy Office-that is, the Roman Inquisition. Last, after securing
of Trent
441
around for only a few years, and the popes who succeeded him pressed the Coun-
cil to reach even further in its ambition: Paul IV (r. 1555-1559) and Pius IV
tery of Mont Saint-Michel, and made him a cardinal. Julius, thankfully, was
awarded him several wealthy benefices, appointed him the abbot of the monas-
street beggar named Innocenzo. Julius moved Innocenzo into the Vatican palace,
we to the role of general councils in ecclesiastical governance. The
s, many of them more concerned with their personal fates than with the
ess. The success of Protestantism produced urgent calls for a general council;
otestant had done so; no new national-scale conversions were won by any of the
quarantees that its proceedings would be subject to papal approval, he called for a
ar the Jesuits, a teaching and missionary order; and in 1542 he authorized the
the next chapter); in 1540 he confirmed the formation of the Society of Jesus,
emning the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the New World (discussed
the bishops, and the shortcomings in parish life. In 1537 Paul issuedlit con-
al dithering only made the calls more insistent. But then, surprisingly, the
sto investigate church abuses; this commission's final report, puoliahed in 1536,
d bare scores of problems in the administration of the papal court, the actions
konly aggravated the problems that both sides were supposedly trying to ad-
potestant juggernaut stalled. By 1540 every state in Europe that would become
Beginning with Pope Paul III (r. 1534-1549), the court in Rome finally took
novel, a vast,
şest it comes
and 4 about
to locate an
a girl whose
etitive, and
eaders and
er is man's
on reform. He appointed a commission of high-ranking cler-
Gargantua
ES written
e lead in bringing
omeone's
e numer-
sHutten
e attack.
a heavy
ns and
mbasts
d drink
amenical council to study and propose solutions to the general reform of
liclife, which has come to be known as either the Catholic Reformation or
ege. In
is cod-
50,418
Counter-Reformation. This Council of Trent, which convened (with a few
rermissions) from 1546 to 1563, was the most important assembly of its kind
ntil the Second Vatican Council of 1963–1965.
Although the religious revolt in northern Europe was obviously its trigger,
the Council of Trent was more than a response to Protestantism; efforts at reform The
had begun long before Luther appeared on the scene. Nevertheless, the Council's Plan for
initial actions offered no hint of compromise but rather highlighted the differ-
ences between what it regarded as Catholic truth and Protestant lies. If anything,
they asserted the Catholic position with even more force than before. The prob-
ens confronting the church, the Council believed, were not with doctrine itself
Dut with the ways in which doctrine was taught to the people. The changes most
needed were therefore in leadership and organization.
from
pho-
free-
prds,
Renewal
at in
one
ible
aui l's successor, Pope Julius III (r. 1550-1555), devoted himself to per-
a pleasure-in particular, his infatuation with an illiterate, fourteen-year-old
ne
ut
a
a
t
Transcribed Image Text:ice they held, opPposed this "conciliarism" vehemently, but the resulting dead- reation of the Holy Office-that is, the Roman Inquisition. Last, after securing of Trent 441 around for only a few years, and the popes who succeeded him pressed the Coun- cil to reach even further in its ambition: Paul IV (r. 1555-1559) and Pius IV tery of Mont Saint-Michel, and made him a cardinal. Julius, thankfully, was awarded him several wealthy benefices, appointed him the abbot of the monas- street beggar named Innocenzo. Julius moved Innocenzo into the Vatican palace, we to the role of general councils in ecclesiastical governance. The s, many of them more concerned with their personal fates than with the ess. The success of Protestantism produced urgent calls for a general council; otestant had done so; no new national-scale conversions were won by any of the quarantees that its proceedings would be subject to papal approval, he called for a ar the Jesuits, a teaching and missionary order; and in 1542 he authorized the the next chapter); in 1540 he confirmed the formation of the Society of Jesus, emning the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the New World (discussed the bishops, and the shortcomings in parish life. In 1537 Paul issuedlit con- al dithering only made the calls more insistent. But then, surprisingly, the sto investigate church abuses; this commission's final report, puoliahed in 1536, d bare scores of problems in the administration of the papal court, the actions konly aggravated the problems that both sides were supposedly trying to ad- potestant juggernaut stalled. By 1540 every state in Europe that would become Beginning with Pope Paul III (r. 1534-1549), the court in Rome finally took novel, a vast, şest it comes and 4 about to locate an a girl whose etitive, and eaders and er is man's on reform. He appointed a commission of high-ranking cler- Gargantua ES written e lead in bringing omeone's e numer- sHutten e attack. a heavy ns and mbasts d drink amenical council to study and propose solutions to the general reform of liclife, which has come to be known as either the Catholic Reformation or ege. In is cod- 50,418 Counter-Reformation. This Council of Trent, which convened (with a few rermissions) from 1546 to 1563, was the most important assembly of its kind ntil the Second Vatican Council of 1963–1965. Although the religious revolt in northern Europe was obviously its trigger, the Council of Trent was more than a response to Protestantism; efforts at reform The had begun long before Luther appeared on the scene. Nevertheless, the Council's Plan for initial actions offered no hint of compromise but rather highlighted the differ- ences between what it regarded as Catholic truth and Protestant lies. If anything, they asserted the Catholic position with even more force than before. The prob- ens confronting the church, the Council believed, were not with doctrine itself Dut with the ways in which doctrine was taught to the people. The changes most needed were therefore in leadership and organization. from pho- free- prds, Renewal at in one ible aui l's successor, Pope Julius III (r. 1550-1555), devoted himself to per- a pleasure-in particular, his infatuation with an illiterate, fourteen-year-old ne ut a a t
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