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Who is my Brother?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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The Council of Trent condemned heresies, as Councils have done since the beginning until Vatican II. It arrested such corruption as had been denounced by the Christian people. It laid down businesslike rules for the re-organization of a rather lax ecclesiastical society, it set up seminaries and effective visitations, and it provided the material for a full-bodied Canon Law which for four hundred years prevented any further epidemic demic of scandals, thereby restoring the good name of the church in the eyes of secular society. But as a social document it failed, and failed egregiously. The period which followed on the Council of Trent is known historically as the Counter-Reformation.

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Copyright © 1964 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 This whole analysis is treated somewhat roughly here. Those who care to read a more extensive account with references given, might wish to read the two first chapters of my The Variety of Catholic Attitudes, Burns and Oates Compass Books, published this month.