Council of Trent
Britishnoun
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“Restorationism has come to gag the council,” he said, adding that he knew some priests for whom the 16th century Council of Trent was more memorable than the 20th century Vatican II.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2022
While the Council of Trent would not budge on doctrine, it did propose one monumental change to the Church: henceforth, priests would be formally trained for the job.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
He invents with such empathy that the closest thing to an unmitigated villain is Pius IV, the new Nero presiding over the conflagration lit by the Council of Trent.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2016
The Council of Trent, which had been convened in response to the threat posed by Protestantism, had ended only two years previously and the counter-Reformation, with its purgative restatement of Catholic first principles, was underway.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013
A Roman clergyman, who expressed this expectation to me with peculiar confidence, added that there had been a like occurrence at the Council of Trent and it would now be repeated.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
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