Christian humanism affect the Roman Catholic Church?

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Roman Catholic AnswerDespite its best intentions, and the support of a few Popes, and sterling examples, such as St. Thomas More, Humanism also produced Carlo Aretino and Machiavelli. I think the final vote was the Humanism was not really compatible with Christianity, although certainly it had some good points which were absorbed by the Church, which then returned to Scholasticism. Christian humanism produced the Renaissance, but in the end, both humanism and the Renaissance were "mundane, pagan, irreligious, positive" (J.A. Symonds)

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Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Name originally given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movements of the fourteenth century through the early sixteenth. Their aim was to base every branch of learning on the culture of classical Greek and Roman antiquity. On its pagan side, it extolled the early non-Christian writers who stressed the full development of human nature, only vaguely interested in life after death. On its Christian side, believing humanists encouraged the free use of the treasures of antiquity without compromising the truths of the Gospel. Christian humanism began with Dante (1265-1321). Popes Pius II, Sixtus IV, and Leo X favored Christian humanism and did much to promote it. St. Thomas More (1478-1535) typified its best spirit in England. After the French Revolution the extreme humanistic spirit rebelled against Christian revelation and the Church.