Trent: What Happened at the Council
(By John W. O'Malley)
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During the council s eighteen years, war and threat of war among the key players, as well as the Ottoman Turks onslaught against Christendom, turned the council into a perilous enterprise. Its leaders declined to make a pronouncement on war against infidels, but Trent s most glaring and ironic silence was on the authority of the papacy itself. The popes, who reigned as Italian monarchs while serving as pastors, did everything in their power to keep papal reform out of the council s hands and their power was considerable. O Malley shows how the council pursued its contentious parallel agenda of reforming the Church while simultaneously asserting Catholic doctrine.
Like "What Happened at Vatican II," O Malley s "Trent: What Happened at the Council" strips mythology from historical truth while providing a clear, concise, and fascinating account of a pivotal episode in Church history. In celebration of the 450th anniversary of the council s closing, it sets the record straight about the much misunderstood failures and achievements of this critical moment in European history.”
