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Pope Paul III set up a special committee to prepare a report on the need for reform in the Church. The document they presented to the Pope in February 1537 did not mince words in accounting for the sickness of the Church, and it made radical proposals to 'restore the Church of Christ, which was crumbling down, nay had almost fallen in headlong ruin'. This set alarm bells ringing down the corridors of the curia, and endeavours were made by interested parties to suppress its findings.

He convoked a council on 6 June 1542 to meet at Trent, where after long delays the first session opened in December 1545. It was slow in getting down to business and so small in number as to be very unrepresentative. The full council did met again at Trent in 1551-2, after the death of Paul III, but the meetings were rarely attended by as many as fifty bishops and were pretty abortive. It would be many years before the Council of Trent really moved forward towards even limited reform.

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