Understanding Church History and Reforms

Christendom is the unity of Europe as a commonwealth of Christian people, a single society composed of different people united by one common faith, moral, and intellectual culture.

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• False

Feudalism led to the abuses within the Church. One of which is simony wherein the clergy kept concubines.

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The Cluniac reform set a model of choosing Church leaders when monks opted to vote their own abbots.

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The mendicant orders sought to live monastic ideals of self-renunciation, poverty, and self-sacrifice while in the world in order to convert it by example and preaching as they engaged themselves with the society.

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Who paved the way for the birth of Christendom?

• Pepin

• Charlemagne

• Constantine

• Theodosius

Why did lay investiture lead to many problems in the Church?

• Kings appointed unfit and unholy people as bishops and abbots.

• Popes became too dependent on the protection of kings.

• Bishops became princes by having estates.

• The clergy became too political.

How did the mendicant orders reform the Church?

• They started an armed revolution.

• They called for schisms as they were dissatisfied with the Church.

• They preached and lived the Gospel values by witnessing and simplicity.

• They advocated that the kings be overthrown and be replaced by the clergymen.

NEPOTISM is one of the abuses wherein Church officials appointed their relatives to Church positions.

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The rise of RENAISSANCE which underscored worldly achievements, increased of literacy level of the people, influx of books in the society, availability of local translations of the Bible, and the growing nationalism among kingdoms led many people call for reform in a Church which was still plagued with abuses.

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POPE JOHN XXIII called the Second Vatican Council for the Church to have an “aggiornamento” or “updating” geared towards unity and peace among all Christians, reflection on the relationship of the Church and the world, and to bridge the gap between the clergy and the laity.

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• False