during the medieval time period
The four marks of the Church are One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. They all of them pertain to unity of faith.
They are not honoring the Roman Catholic Church- but the Universal Church. Catholic means Universal. To be praising the Catholic Church, is praising the unity of all believers in the Triumphant Church to come.
The Pope may want to prevent conflict between Spain and Portugal because both countries are predominantly Catholic. He may fear that a conflict could lead to religious divisions and weaken the unity of the Catholic Church. Additionally, as the head of the Church, the Pope wants to promote peace and unity among Catholic nations.
The four marks of the Church are: unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity. These four esstential characteristics, proper to the Catholic Church alone, visibly manifest to the world that she is the true Church of Christ. They are listed in the Creed as "One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church".from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957
decline in religious unity and in the power of the Catholic Church
No, except for those who promote and aid in the mission of Satan to destroy the Church.
Roman Catholic AnswerI think you have this backwards, the Church, in Christ, is like a sacrament - The Church IS a sign and an instrument of communion with God and of unity among men - from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 775.
decline in religious unity and in the power of the Catholic Church
The Council of Trent reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings in response to Protestant Reformation challenges. It also issued decrees addressing issues of corruption and discipline among clergy, and standardized the Mass and sacraments to promote unity within the Catholic Church.
Eastern Orthodox Christians are permitted with special permission to receive the Eucharist from a Catholic Church on certain occasions and other non-Catholic Christians may be able to receive if they are in danger of death, express a belief in the Eucharist, and ask for it on their own initiative. The reason for this is that only the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church believe in the Eucharist in the proper sense, and furthermore, the Eucharist is a sacrament of unity within the Church, and it would be wrong for those who do not share fully in the unity of the Catholic Church to receive it.
He hoped that the Eastern Church (Orthodox) and Western Church (Catholic) would be reunited.
Unity Church was created in 1889.