The Dark Box: A Secret History Of Confession - Plot & Excerpts
—Secret report on the need for a Church council, commissioned by Pope Paul III in 1536, quoted in John W. O’Malley, Trent: What Happened at the Council FOR TWO DECADES OF THE MID-SIXTEENTH CENTURY, THE ancient walled city of Trent, high in the bracing air of the Tyrol, was the scene for the Church of Rome’s response to the laxities and corruptions within Latin Christianity and the grievances and challenges of the Protestant reformers. A favoured Protestant metaphor speaks of the Council of Trent as the point at which Western Christendom broke into a delta of separated streams, with the Roman flood carrying off the filth and flotsam of the Middle Ages. Rome, however, speaks of that Council as the majestic continuation of Christianity’s authentic mainstream, from which the Protestant churches broke away in heretical discontinuities.1 Pope Paul III had for eight years attempted to find the ideal location for the Council. Mantua, Piacenza, and Cambrai had been suggested and rejected.
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