Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c26.24

v2.c26.24

The Council of Trent, which was opened in 1545, was the most important event of the pontificate of Paul III. It was the council that was to define the doctrines of the Catholic Church and to initiate the reforms that were to make the Church a more effective instrument of the Counter-Reformation. The Council was to last for eighteen years, and it was to be the most significant event in the history of the Church in the sixteenth century. It was to be the council that would finally settle the questions that had been raised by the Reformation, and it would provide the Church with the doctrinal and disciplinary framework that it needed to meet the challenge of Protestantism.