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...Council of 1123. The rule, however, was not easy to enforce. Until the Reformation, parish priests frequently scandalized the faithful by taking wives, or at least keeping mistresses and concubines, as did Popes and cardinals. After Protestantism rejected celibacy for the ministry as unnatural and unnecessary, the Council of Trent declared it an "objectively superior state of life" and imposed excommunication on priests or nuns who violated the canon laws prohibiting marriage...
Unlike the old Mass, a Counter-Reformation product of the Council of Trent that outlined each word and move of the liturgy in some 57,000 words of meticulous rubrics, the new Mass is less a set of regulations than a series of options. Four alternative "Eucharistic prayers," for instance, may be chosen for the most sacred part of the Mass, the consecration of the bread and wine. Though the consecration words themselves ("This is my body . . . This is my blood . . .") are identical in each version, the four differing Eucharistic prayers are designed, in Pope Paul's phrase...
...CECIL TRENT JR. Engineer Beaumont, Texas
...theologians are today publicly questioning established dogma in a way that might have earned them excommunication in the 19th century and execution in the 16th. Several Dutch thinkers, for example, have tried to redefine the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist, which was made dogma at the Council of Trent; others have proposed radical new ideas on original sin (TIME, March 21). Even the conventional concepts of God, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ and the reality of his Resurrection are considered open for theological reconsideration. Last month, in an effort to establish the boundaries of such searching, Pope Paul...
...doctrine proved durable. For John Calvin, Adam's fall "perverted the whole order of nature in heaven and on earth." To Martin Luther, man was simul justus et peccator-a sinner savable by God's grace received through faith alone. The 16th century Council of Trent re-endorsed Augustine's attack on Pelagianism for the Counter-Reformation Catholic Church. And only last year, Pope Paul rephrased the traditional understanding of original sin as part of his modern creed...