Word: trent
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...many Protestants, the clock of Catholicism appears to have stopped in the Middle Ages; Küng says they are wrong. Some major reforms of attitudes and actions-notably as a result of the Jesuits, the Council of Trent, and Popes Leo XIII, Pius XII and John XXIII-have been accomplished within the church. Küng argues that many of these changes have answered the initial demands of the Reformers. In historical scholarship, European Catholic writers nowadays exude sympathy for the motives of Luther...
...Bahamas (no personal property tax; no real estate tax; no income tax). dedicated golfers cluster around Eleuthera's sprawling Cotton Bay Club, where Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe and friends have a magnificent seaside golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones. Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent...
...parchment document of the papal bull began in the traditional way: "John, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God." Thus, on Christmas morning, Pope John XXIII was to convoke Vatican Council II-potentially an event in Roman Catholic history on the order of the Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople or Trent...
Early councils were primarily concerned with combating heresy and defining the truths that form the credo of most believing Christians; Trent and most of the medieval councils placed greater emphasis on tightening church discipline. Pope John's new council, frankly aimed at "modernizing" the church, will have plenty to do in both discipline and dogma. The Vatican Council of 1869-70, even though it was the first churchwide convocation in more than 300 years, did little more than define papal infallibility before it broke up at the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Thus, in its present battle against...
...greatest gathering of Christians since the 16th century, when the Council of Trent worked for 18 years to counter the Protestant Reformation, ends this week in New Delhi. It is the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Behind all the well-organized confusion - the hustling to and fro between auditorium and committee room, the 15,000 sheet daily blizzard of mimeographed paper, the lost traveler's checks, the distracting snake charmers and the non stop talking across language barriers - a vast regrouping of Christendom seems to be taking shape. One veteran churchman. President Henry Pitney Van Dusen...