Quite extensive, Pope Paul III reconvened the Council of Trent and approved the Society of Jesus among many other things. Pope Paul IV also oversaw the Council of Trent, instituted the Roman Inquisition, and strongly affirmed the Catholic dogma of extra ecclesiam nulla salus("Outside the Church there is no salvation"). He also started the Index of Forbidden books which was in force from the mid-16th century up until 1966.
.Catholic AnswerThere have been many famous reformers of the Catholic Church, among them several famous Popes. Of the most recent, Pope John XXIII started the reform that was called for by the Second Vatican Council, which has been implemented by Popes Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI.
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They are two Popes: John the 23 during 1960-63 and Pope Paul 6 to 1965.
Pope Blessed John Paul II was one of the longest reigning Popes of the Catholic Church. Throughout his life he taught the Catholic faith, this is also what is taught in every Catholic school.
There have been only two popes named John Paul, John Paul I, and John Paul II, there has never been a John Paul 13th.
Saints (Sts.) Peter and Paul Catholic Church would be proper.
Roman Catholic AnswerNo, the center of the Catholic Church since the first century has been Rome where Saints Peter and Paul went and both died and were buried there. St. Peter is buried in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, and St. Paul is buried in St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. It has remained the Center of the Catholic Church to this day, aside from a brief period in the 14th century when the Popes were staying in France.
St. Vincent of Paul Catholic Church was created in 1858.
No, he did not start the Catholic Church.
Well, actually, it's just the Catholic Church, not the Roman Catholic Church. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is rarely used by the Catholic Church. St. Paul was a Bishop in the early Catholic Church.
Roman Catholic AnswerWe seem to have a sematic problem here, to reform means to to make something better, to improve it. The protestants revolted against the Church, the disagreed with the Church and left it, they did not attempt to reform it. So the most obvious answer is that the Popes attempted reform, the protestants didn't.
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