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Popes
- Pre
Council
of Trent
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
- had at least 7 illegitimate
children and gave them
handsome endowments at
the church's expense
- When low on
finances, he
would take money
from the rich after
murdering or
jailing them with
false charges
- Julius II (1503-13) -
'Warrior Pope'. Reforming
the Catholic Church was
last thing on his mind,
devoting his energy to
political & military matters
- more of a soldier than
churchman; focused on
gaining territory for the
Papacy at the expense of
France, Spain and the HRE
- Leo X (1513-21) - financially
unstable, had to borrow huge
sums from creditors. Practices
nepotism and sold indulgences
to build St Peter's
- Paul III (1534-49) -
nepotism & financial
corruption.
Commissioned report
on clerical abuses in
1536: need to reform
moral & spiritual
conditions
- Post
Council
of Trent
- Paul IV (1555-59)
- Strict, introduces
first Index in 1559.
Encouraged
Inquisition to
arrest and
sentence heretics
- Also excluded absentee bishops
from Rome and sentencing of
100+ monks and friars to prison
and to the galleys
- Pius IV (1559-65) - Revised Index in
1564 and a catechism was
commissioned and completed after his
death.
- Fathered 3 illegitimate children,
appointed underage cardinals, and
dispensed papal patronage lavishly
- Pius V (1566-72) - epitomised
Catholic Reformation. Visited poor,
attended lepers, spent weeks in
meditation.
- Although he encouraged
rulers to attack heresy, little
was achieved apart from the
Catholic triumph over the
Turks at Lepanto
- In keeping with the Tridentine
Decrees (from CoT), enforced clerical residence
among Italian bishops
- Gregory XIII (1572-85) - 'Super
Pope'. Focused energy on
reforming Rome for its jubilee.
Ordered destruction of decayed
buildings, removed prostitutes
- Keen to promote Jesuit missions to Protestant countries. Interested in education and refounded Jesuit college in Rome, all bishops should be qualified