It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church.
In the eleventh century, there was the Schism of the East when the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Holy Father excommunicated each other and the Eastern Church split from Rome. Then the Western Schism occurred at the end of the fourteenth, beginning of the fifteenth century when there was more than one claimant to the Papal Tiara and Christendom was split over who was the valid pope.
There were a lot of problems in the Church by the end of the fifteenth century, the Church had just lived through the Western Schism where there had been more than one claimant to the papal tiara, and Europe was split over which "pope" to support. There was a growing spiritual "coldness" in people's spiritual life which coincided with the rise of mercantilism and the rising business class, who were separating their business life from their spiritual life, and compartmentalizing life. There was also the rising threat of Islam into Europe. People were no longer as spiritual and devote, their lives were being separated from their faith.
from What Every Catholic Wants to Know Catholic History from the Catacombs to the Reformation, by Diane Moczar, c 2006 by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division
The five key elements that made up the "medieval synthesis" were:
- The harmony between Faith and reason.
- The balance of power among nation-states as parts of Christendom
- The balancing of the authority of the king with local self-government.
- The harmony between the goals of individual self-fulfillment and those of society.
- The equilibrium - and an uneasy one, it is true - between Church and state.
In the fourteenth century everything started to fall apart beginning with famine and plague. Cold, wet weather between 1315 and 1322 brought ruined crops in northern Europe and the resulting famine produced mass starvation, the mortality rate was as high as ten percent. But within 25-20 years the Black Death struck Europe. Between 1347-1350 an estimate average of thirty percent of the population on the continent died. In some cases, the death toll was much higher. It returned again in 1363 and would recur periodically for the next three centuries. All of this caused social friction and rebellions, not to mention some bizarre heresies. In addition to all of this the Hundred Years's War began, the Ottoman Turks began their onslaught of Europe, and the Papacy was going through many troubles beginning with the Avignon papacy. All of this set the stage, so to speak for the protestant catastrophe.
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Was organized when? The church in the 1st. or 2nd. century was quite different from the church in the 10th. century, for example.
Canonization, the process of recognizing a person as a saint by the Catholic Church, began in the early church with the recognition of martyrs. The formal process of canonization, as we know it today, started in the 10th century. Pope John XV formalized the process in 993 AD.
Saint William Firmatus, also known as Saint William the Confessor, was a monk and abbot known for his piety and miracles. He lived in 10th-century France and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
The Hanging Church was built in the 7th century, probably on the site of a 3rd or 4th century church for the soldiers of the bastion. It has been rebuilt several times since then, including a major rebuild under Patriarch Abraham in the 10th century.
Cluniac Monks are Monks that come from the Cluny Abbey in France, or religious communities influenced by the medieval Cluny movement. They played major role in reorganizing the catholic church in the 10th and 11th century.
It was started in Cluny Abbey in Cluny, France, and is know as the Cluniac reform.
10th century
Catholics are Christians. Your question is probably implicitly, "Was Paul a Catholic or another type of Christian?" That would depend on who you ask. Catholics consider the Catholic Church as the institution founded by Christ, and thus every Christian recognized by the Church as a Christian is a Catholic. In modern times, where Christian denominations exist, it would be asserted by these denominations that the Catholic Church began at such a time or at such and such an event, usually sometime in the 4th or 10th century, depending on what source is consulted. This would make Paul a Christian retroactively claimed by the Catholic Church as a Catholic. Evidence of Paul following the traditions now considered "Catholic" are his celibacy, priesthood, observation of faith and works, doctrine of the mystical body of Christ, observance and participation in an established Church hierarchy, literal understanding of the Eucharist as Christ's Body and Blood, etc.
The years from 901AD to 1000AD was the 10th century AD.
989 BC falls within the 10th century BC.
This is Saint Bernard of Menthon, (or Montjoux), born in 923, feast day 28th May.
902AD was the 10th century.