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  Pope Paul III Summary
Under Pope Clement VII (1523–34) he became Cardinal Bishop of Portus (Ostia) and dean of the College of Cardinals, and on the death of Clement VII in 1534, was elected as Pope Paul III.
Paul III was in earnest in the matter of improving the ecclesiastical situation, and on June 2, 1536, he issued a papal bull convoking a general council to sit at Mantua in 1537.
Paul III proved unable to suppress the Protestant Reformation, although it was during his pontificate that the foundation was laid for the Counter-Reformation.
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 Pope Paul III
In the constantly recurring quarrels between Francis and Charles, Paul III preserved a strict neutrality, notwithstanding that Charles urged him to support the empire and subject Francis to the censures of the Church.
Pope Paul was not the instigator of the removal of the council; he simply acquiesced in the decision of the Fathers.
Pope Paul, who had given the emperor essential aid in the Smalcaldic war, resented his dabbling in theology, and their estrangement continued until the death of the pontiff.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/paul_iii,pope.html   (1752 words)

  
 Pope Paul III Biography
Paul III was in earnest in the matter of improving the ecclesiastical situation, and on June 2, 1536, he issued a bull convoking a general council to sit at Mantua in 1537.
The pope's son was assassinated at Piacenza, and Paul III believed that this had not come to pass without the emperor's foreknowledge.
With reference to the assassinated prince's inheritance, the restitution of which Paul III demanded ostensibly in the name and for the sake of the Church, the pope's design was thwarted by the emperor, who refused to surrender Piacenza, and by Pier Luigi's heir in Parma, Ottavio Farnese.
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 Pope Pius IV
Pius IV (Giovanni Angelo Medici), pope from 1559 to 1565, was born of humble parentage at Milan, March 31, 1499.
After studying at Bologna and acquiring reputation as a jurist, he went in 1527 to Rome, and as the favourite of Pope Paul III was rapidly promoted to the governorship of several towns, the archbishopric of Ragusa, the vice-legateship of Bologna, and in April 1549 to the cardinalate.
On the death of Paul IV he was elected pope on December 28, 1559, and installed on the 6th January 1560.
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 AN ABRIDGED HISTORY OF ROME - PART III - III - A PERIOD OF CHANGE
Pope Julius III used to arrange parties in the suburban villa he built outside Porta del Popolo and which can be regarded as a transition to the new style, although its decoration is not as rich as that of Palazzo Spada.
Pope Paul IV did not reconvene the council and he managed relations badly with Queen Elizabeth I who replaced her half-sister Mary in 1558: the rigidity of the pope led the young queen towards the re-establishment of a separate national church.
Pope Paul IV died in August 1559: the Romans reacted to the news by setting fire to the Inquisition palace and by destroying all the coats of arms of the pope: his statue in Campidoglio was beheaded and the head was rolled down the cordonata.
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 Pope Julius III
After the death of Paul III on 10 November, 1549, the forty-eight cardinals present in Rome entered the conclave on 29 November.
In February, 1555, an embassy was sent by the English Parliament to Julius III to inform him of its unreserved submission to the papal supremacy, but the embassy was still on its journey when the pope died.
At the beginning of his pontificate Julius III had the earnest desire to bring about a reform in the Church and with this intent he reopened the Council of Trent.
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 Pope Paul III
Paul III, given name Alessandro Farnese, Roman Catholic Pope from 1534 to 1549, Was born on the 28th of February 1468, of an old and distinguished family.
To the liaison between his sister Giulia Farnese Orsini and Pope Alexander VI he owed his cardinal's hat; but the steady favor which he enjoyed under successive popes was due to his own cleverness and capacity for affairs.
Paul was shrewd, calculating, tenacious; but on the other hand over-cautious, and inclined rather to temporize than to strike at the critical moment.
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 Pope Paul IV Summary
Paul also had strained relations with the Austrian Hapsburgs, threatening to depose Charles V and refusing to recognize Ferdinand I, partly because of imperial acquiescence to the Religious Peace of Augsburg (1555) and partly because Ferdinand accepted the office of emperor without the Pope's approval.
But Carafa was recalled to Rome by the reform-minded Pope Paul III (1534–49), to sit on a committee of reform of the papal court, an appointment that forecast an end to a humanist papacy, and a revival of scholasticism, for Carafa was a thorough disciple of Thomas Aquinas.
Paul IV was violently opposed to the liberal Giovanni Cardinal Morone whom he strongly suspected of being a hidden Protestant, so much that he had him imprisoned.
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 Popes
The worldly Paul III was a notable patron of the arts and at the same time encouraged the beginning of the reform movement that was to affect deeply the Roman Catholic Church in the later 16th century.
Pope Paul's greatest problems were caused by his relations with Emperor Charles V and the French king Francis I, whom he tried to persuade to cease their inveterate wars and turn their forces against the Ottoman Turks, who menaced the coasts of Italy as well as the outposts of Christendom in the East.
Nevertheless, the Pope's decision that doctrinal matters be given precedence prevailed, and, in its early sessions, the Council of Trent hammered out decrees on the canon of the Scriptures, original sin, justification, and the sacraments, as well as on reform.
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 Pope Paul III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Accordingly the Pope despatched Cardinal Morone as nuncio to Hagenau and Worms, in 1540; while, in 1541, Cardinal Contarini took part in the adjustment proceedings at the Conference of Regensburg.
All that could henceforth be expected of Paul III was that he would co-operate in the violent suppression of heretics in Germany, as he had done in Italy, by creating an arm of the revived Inquisition for their annihilation.
In consequence of a violent altercation on this account with Cardinal Farnese, Paul III, at the age of eighty-one years, became so overwrought that an attack of sickness ensued from which he died, 10 November 1549.
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 Monument to Paul III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On the left of the Altar of the Chair is the Monument to Paul III (1534-1549), the Pope who in 1545 convoked the Council of Trent and in 1547 commissioned Michelangelo to direct the work of building the basilica.
Paul III's monument, in spite of the ridiculous stance and pose of the two allegorical figures, is still one of the best in St Peter's.
The former, a naked representation of Paul III's seductive sister, Giulia Farnese, was given a metal tunic by Pope Innocent X; the latter, an old hag in the likeness of the pope's mother looking at herself in a glass, was suffered to remain nude down to the navel.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Paul III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Paul III 1468-1549, pope (1534-49), a Roman named Alessandro Farnese; successor of Clement VII.
Peter III 1728-62, czar of Russia (1762), son of Charles Frederick, dispossessed duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and of Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great.
Popes of the Roman Catholic Church Popes of the Roman Catholic Church In the following list, the date of election, rather than of consecration, is given.
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 Stephan Jenkins + Paul III Approves the Jesuits
Born Alessandro Farnese on 29 February 1468 in Rome, Paul III was pope for 15 years, from 12 October 1534 until his death on 10 November 1549.
Paul won his elevation though his sister Giulia's liaison with Pope Alexander VI, and managed to have four children born to him while he was yet a cardinal.
As befits a Counter-Reformation pope, Paul tried to lessen the losses to the Catholic Church caused by its own corruption and excess, and resisted until his last breath any real reform in the church.
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 "Maddalena" - A Renaissance Love Story - Popes, Cardinals and Women
The historical person, a grandson of Pope Paul III and the devoted patron of the first Jesuit church in Rome, was a womanizer who didn't take his sacred vows for thirty years.
Paul III ascended to the papal throne with four legitimized children, and great dynastic plans for his grandchildren.
Unlike Paul III, the immensely rich Alessandro was not rich enough to bribe his way to the coveted papal chair.
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 EIPS - Apology or Inquisition?
Remember: Paul III was the Pope of the Counter-Reformation, the Pope who instigated the Council of Trent, the purpose of which was to reaffirm and strengthen the doctrines of the Roman Church while sitting under the pretence of carrying out reforms.
It began in 1542, under Pope Paul III as the Congregation of the Inquisition to defend the Church against heresy.
Significantly, it was Pope Paul VI's Decree on Ecumenism at Vatican II that called for "dialogue" and "unity" and coined the term "separated brethren" to replace "heretics", while obstinately persisting with the claim that "Christ's Catholic Church alone" is the "all-embracing means of salvation".
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 Pope Julius III
Julius III, born Giovanni Maria del Monte, Roman Catholic Pope from 1550 to 1555, was born on the 10th of September 1487.
He was created cardinal by Pope Paul III in 1536, filled several important legations, and was elected pope on the 7th of February 1550, despite the opposition of Charles V, whose enmity he had incurred as president of the council of Trent.
His nepotism was of a less ambitious order than that of Paul III; but he provided for his family out of the offices and revenues of the Church, and advanced unworthy favorites to the cardinalate.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 22, 1536
Pope Paul III named him legate before king François I of France to dissuade him to go to war against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and in 1534, recalled the bishop to Rome.
Legate in Rome and its district because of the absence of the pope, August 12, 1541.
At this time, Pole was called to Rome by Pope Paul III; the pope wanted to appoint him to a commission that he had formed under the presidency of Cardinal Contarini to prepare a scheme for the internal reform of the church.
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 Trent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pope Paul III finally and effectively called the council to convene in 1545 after several false starts.
The decrees of the council were confirmed by Pope Pius IV on January 26, 1564, and they set the standard of faith and practice for the church until the mid-20th century.
Pope Paul III was elected pope in 1534 partly on the strength of his promise to convoke a council.
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 Roman Inquisition
Paul III was succeeded, in 1555, by Paul IV, or Gian Pietro Cardinal Carafa, the Dominican at whose suggestion he had reinvigorated the Inquisition, and who was a member of the original Congregation of the Inquisition.
While Paul IV and Pius IV held Elizabeth's reign to be illegitimate—being the offspring of Anne Boleyn—they had foreborn to declare her excommunicate.
The Pope, says Bonanni, "gave orders for a painting, descriptive of the slaughter of the admiral and his companions, to be made in the hall of the Vatican by Georgio Vasari, as a monument of vindicated religion, and a trophy of exterminated heresy." These representations form three different frescoes....
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 Paul III and Invincible Ignorance - Quarto Abeunte Saeculo
Paul III and Invincible Ignorance - Quarto Abeunte Saeculo
Paul III was mindful to assert that the newly found pagans are truly men who are naturally equipped to receive the Faith, through grace, should it and its desire be gratuitously given, as the slavers denied their humanity that they might enslave them.
Hence Christ, who is the Truth itself, that has never failed and can never fail, said to the preachers of the faith whom He chose for that office 'Go ye and teach all nations.' He said all, without exception, for all are capable of receiving the doctrines of the faith.
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 Pope Paul III with his Grandsons Alessandro and Ottavio Farnese by TIZIANO Vecellio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pope Paul III with his Grandsons Alessandro and Ottavio Farnese
Titian arrived to Rome in 1545 and he met there several cardinals and artists and he was even received by Pope Paul III.
Titian shows the old, stooped pope grasping the armrest with his left hand, and he gives the pontiff a wily expression quite at odds with the conventions of state portraiture.
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 Tomb of Pope Paul III by PORTA, Guglielmo della
Tomb of Pope Paul III by PORTA, Guglielmo della
He sculpted a number of busts of the Farnese Pope Paul III and worked his way into the papal hierarchy, securing the commission for the Pope's tomb.
Della Porta's commanding Pope is depicted alive and seated on a diagonal in an engaging manner, a less formal pose then the benediction adopted by Bernini.
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 The Legacy of the Society of Jesus
On April 22, 1541, six of the original ten founders of the Society went out to the Church of St. Paul Outside the Walls, to make their final profession of vows, recalling Montmartre in 1534, and restating their availability in service to the Lord and his Vicar on earth.
One such correspondent was Catherine, wife of King John III of Portugal who had nine children, and who was once the “lady of Ignatius’ heart” in his youthful days upon visiting her at the Convent of Santa Clara in Tordesillas.
This took place in the jubilee year of 1550, when Pope Paul III granted again his solemn blessing on the Society and lifted the limitation of its members to sixty.
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 (POPE HATE) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is: a cocktail of inferiority complex, envy and ignorance; the fame of the Turkish soldier, fantasies of Turkish love life and history of Turkish civilisation.
Pope Paul III (1468–1549) was a Roman named Alessandro Farnesepope, and served as pope between 1534-49.
Let's not forget the humanity and true Christianity of Pope John Paul II, who forgave and fought for the pardon of his would-be Turkish assassin Mehmet Ali Agca.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Paul III
The Roman people rejoiced at the election to the tiara of the first citizen of their city since Martin V.
Paul III was crowned 3 Nov., and lost no time in setting about the most needed reforms.
He issued a new bull, convoking a council at Vicenza, 1 May, 1538; the chief obstacle was the renewed enmity of Charles V and Francis I.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11579a.htm   (1791 words)

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