What was agreed upon at the Council of Trent?

Answer 1

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Catholic AnswerActually, nearly everyone who was anyone in the early sixteenth century called for the Council that eventually met at Trent. Luther was the first to call for a general council, Emperor Charles V notified the Pope that a Council was necessary, the protestant princes in Germany wanted a council. But, of course, only a Pope can invoke a General Council of the Church, so it was he who issued the summons, the others just let him know of their opinions. The protestants thought that a General Council would agree with them against the Pope, which goes to show how far removed from reality they were.

Answer 2

Catholic AnswerThe Council of Trent, of the 21 Ecumenical Councils of the Church was the most conservative. In contrast with almost every other Council, almost no new material was covered at Trent, no new dogmas, no new doctrines. When of the biggest problems addressed was the very problem that made the Council a necessity: the education of the clergy, which at that time had degraded to a really alarming level. One need only read the 95 Theses of Martin Luther, who was a priest and supposedly a theology professor to realize the outstanding ignorance of the clergy at that time in some countries. The Council of Trent not only made clergy education mandatory and insisted the seminary system - that we still have today, but explicated and explaned doctrines in detail so that there would be no further confusion.

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from the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Council of Trent

The Ecumenical Council of Trent has proved to be of the greatest importance for the development of the inner life of the Church. No council has ever had to accomplish its task under more serious difficulties, none has had so many questions of the greatest importance to decide. The assembly proved to the world that notwithstanding repeated apostasy in church life there still existed in it an abundance of religious force and of loyal championship of the unchanging principles of Christianity. Although unfortunately the council, through no fault of the fathers assembled, was not able to heal the religious differences of Western Europe, yet the infallible Divine truth was clearly proclaimed in opposition to the false doctrines of the day, and in this way a firm foundation was laid for the overthrow of heresy and the carrying out of genuine internal reform in the Church.

from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957

The 19th ecumenical council held at Trent in the Austrian Tyrol, 1545-63, summoned for the purpose of combating Protestantism and reforming the discipline of the Church; the longest and one of the most important of all general councils. It dealt in detail with the doctrinal innovations of the Reformers and with those gross abuses which gave them an opportunity to take root. It was one of the most important events of modern history and has had lasting effect. The principal dogmatic decisions were: the confirmation of the Nicene creed; the authenticity of the Latin Vulgate and the canonicity of all books contained therein and of them only; the definition of the doctrine of Original Sin; the precision of the doctrine of Justification, condemning justification by faith alone and imputation of grace; the condemnation of thirty errors about the sacraments; the definition of the Real Presence and of Transubstantiation as its mode: the precision of the doctrine of the sacraments of penance and Extreme Unction; the declaration that holy communion in both kinds was not necessary for lay-people and clerics not celebrating, Christ being received whole and entire under either species; the precision of doctrine concerning the sacrifice of the Mass and the sacraments of holy Orders and Matrimony; the affirmation of the doctrines of Purgatory, of the invocation of saints, and the veneration of them, their relics and images, and of Indulgences. Far-reaching decrees of reformation in discipline and morals were adopted involving many alterations in canon law, e.g. the decree Tametsi.

AnswerThe Church's interpretation of the Bible is final, which makes sense as the Church wrote the Bible.

Ironically, the Catholic Church's Council of Trent formally recognized and defined Protestantism.

The Council was organized to address and suppress the growing protest (Protestant) movement against the Church and many of its practices begun by Catholic priest Martin Luther in 1495.

Luther originally intended to start discussion and possible reform within the Church. But the Church stood firmly for the faith against Luther and all of his writings, culminating with the Council of Trent, which actually brought about the reforms that Luther asked for.

Answer 3

The Council of Trent, held in the 16th century by the Catholic Church, addressed issues related to the Protestant Reformation. It reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings, established guidelines for the training of priests, clarified the doctrine of original sin, and emphasized the importance of the sacraments and the authority of the Church.

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