Monday, September 11, 2017

Origin of Roman Catholic Church - 58

Continued from previous post –
Catholic Reformation continues -

Reformation and Counter-Reformation - 1517–1585

Baroque Papacy - 1585–1689

The pontificate of Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590) opened up the final stage of the Catholic Reformation, characteristic of the Baroque age of the early seventeenth century, shifting away from compelling to attracting. His reign focused on rebuilding Rome as a great European capital and Baroque (Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century) city, a visual symbol for the Catholic Church. While doing all this main purpose of the Church that is to promote spirituality was conveniently lost.
New ideologies such a socialism and communism emerged in this period and due to this development politics also changed. Politics of war was gradually replaced by politics of elections. Encouraged by all socially alert people all over the world; Pope of Roman Catholic Church had to accept that change and mould its political policies in that accordance. Governments were elected by voters and importance of military power was reduced in the period. Diplomacy was gradually replacing military might in Europe as well as the world. Papal authority has to be very careful in this mixed situation. This provides for more and special type of a challenge to Papal authority. In addition to that, other ideologies such as Hinduism and Yoga began to attract new generations when they found that these new concepts are making many issues in human life easy to face. Secretly though Pope has ordered his companions, too skillfully copy and reintroduce these, scientifically more correct approaches within Christian practices so that Church can benefit by them. Some orthodox groups oppose it but as the time demands, they will have to accept these Hindu practices to improve working of Church. The only care they have to take it to see that ordinary Christians do not get the smell of that. However, 'You Tube', and 'Face Book', on internet may not allow that to happen and eventually everybody shall realize that church is gradually shifting to Hinduism without openly admitting of that.
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