Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (Bologna, March 31, 1675 – Rome, May 3, 1758), was pope from 1740 to 1758. He belonged to a noble family of Bologna, at that time the second largest city in the Papal States. Elected to the Papal chair in a time of great difficulties, chiefly caused by the disputes between Roman Catholic nations and the Papacy about governmental demands to nominate bishops rather than leaving the appointment to the Church, he managed to overcome most of them. The disputes of the Holy See with the Kingdom of Naples, Sardinia, Spain, Venice, and Austria were settled. The conclave which elected him had lasted six months; he is alleged to have said to the Cardinal (Catholicism): "If you wish to elect a saint, choose Vincent Louis Gotti; a statesman, Pompeo Aldrovandi; an honest man, elect me." He had a very active papacy, reforming the education of priests, the Calendar of saints of the Church, and many papal institutions. Perhaps the most important act of his pontificate was the promulgation of his famous laws about missions in the two papal bull, ''Ex quo singulari'' and ''Omnium solicitudinum''. In these bulls he denounced the custom of accommodating Christian words and usages to express non-Christian ideas and practices of the native cultures, which had been extensively done by the Jesuits in their India and China missions. An example of this is the statues of the ancestors — is honor paid to the ancestors to be considered unacceptable 'ancestor worship,' or is it something more like the Catholic veneration of saints? And can a Catholic legitimately 'venerate' an ancestor known to not have been a Christian? The choice of a Chinese translation for the Names given to the divine had also been debated since the early 1600s. The consequence of these bulls was that many of these converts left the Church. He was also responsible, along with Cardinal Passionei, for beginning the catalogue of the Vatican Library. ==See also== * Chinese Rites controversy * Suppression of the Jesuits ==External links== *[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02432a.htm Pope Benedict XIV] at the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. 1675 births 1758 deaths Popes Natives of Bologna
Gotti is incorrect link! ''comment by 195.28.75.30'' *I couldn't find an article for Vincent Louis Gotti, and he isn't listed at List of notable deceased cardinals, but I've changed the link to a redlink for that name. Thank you for catching that. User:SWAdair | User talk:SWAdair 10:22, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC) **Well, we now do have a stub on Gotti, and the Aldrovandi/Aldobrandini goof is also cleared up. ''Cardinal Passionel'' is Domenico Silvio Passionei. I don't have time to go on now, so I'll just dump a few links here: [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/p/Passionei.shtml Passionei (in German)], [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11521c.htm Passionei (Cath. Enc.)], [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1738.htm#Passionei Passionei (Summary)], [http://www.comune.fossombrone.ps.it/turismo/cardin.html Passionei (Img)] (
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Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (Bologna, March 31, 1675 – Rome, May 3, 1758), was pope from 1740 to 1758. He belonged to a noble family of Bologna, at that time the second largest city in the Papal States. Elected to the Papal chair in a time of great difficulties, chiefly caused by the disputes between Roman Catholic nations and the Papacy about governmental demands to nominate bishops rather than leaving the appointment to the Church, he managed to overcome most of them. The disputes of the Holy See with the Kingdom of Naples, Sardinia, Spain, Venice, and Austria were settled. The conclave which elected him had lasted six months; he is alleged to have said to the Cardinal (Catholicism): "If you wish to elect a saint, choose Vincent Louis Gotti; a statesman, Pompeo Aldrovandi; an honest man, elect me." He had a very active papacy, reforming the education of priests, the Calendar of saints of the Church, and many papal institutions. Perhaps the most important act of his pontificate was the promulgation of his famous laws about missions in the two papal bull, ''Ex quo singulari'' and ''Omnium solicitudinum''. In these bulls he denounced the custom of accommodating Christian words and usages to express non-Christian ideas and practices of the native cultures, which had been extensively done by the Jesuits in their India and China missions. An example of this is the statues of the ancestors — is honor paid to the ancestors to be considered unacceptable 'ancestor worship,' or is it something more like the Catholic veneration of saints? And can a Catholic legitimately 'venerate' an ancestor known to not have been a Christian? The choice of a Chinese translation for the Names given to the divine had also been debated since the early 1600s. The consequence of these bulls was that many of these converts left the Church. He was also responsible, along with Cardinal Passionei, for beginning the catalogue of the Vatican Library. ==See also== * Chinese Rites controversy * Suppression of the Jesuits ==External links== *[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02432a.htm Pope Benedict XIV] at the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. 1675 births 1758 deaths Popes Natives of Bologna
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Gotti is incorrect link! ''comment by 195.28.75.30'' *I couldn't find an article for Vincent Louis Gotti, and he isn't listed at List of notable deceased cardinals, but I've changed the link to a redlink for that name. Thank you for catching that. User:SWAdair | User talk:SWAdair 10:22, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC) **Well, we now do have a stub on Gotti, and the Aldrovandi/Aldobrandini goof is also cleared up. ''Cardinal Passionel'' is Domenico Silvio Passionei. I don't have time to go on now, so I'll just dump a few links here: [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/p/Passionei.shtml Passionei (in German)], [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11521c.htm Passionei (Cath. Enc.)], [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1738.htm#Passionei Passionei (Summary)], [http://www.comune.fossombrone.ps.it/turismo/cardin.html Passionei (Img)] (
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