Whether he was rebuking the Count of Champagne or the King of France, settling
the papal schism or fomenting the Second Crusade, this indefatigable, inexorable, and irresistible abbot so swayed his fellows that mothers are said to have hidden their sons at his approach.
As we saw in the last chapter, the Babylonian Captivity and
the Papal schism which brought the Church and its faith into such grave discredit were largely due to the emergence of the French monarchy and to the discontent of rival incipient nationalisms and monarchies with French control.
Not exact matches
TC — Catholicism separated from Orthodox Church in 1054 (The Great
Schism) for two reasons: Rome's claim to a universal
papal supremacy and her addition of the filioque clause to the Nicene Creed.
The claim you make is based on the doctrine of
Papal Supremacy over the Conciliar Kings, formulated by Dufay's mentor d'Ailly with the view of resolving the Great Western
Schism on a permanent, defendable basis, and instigated by Pope Eugenius IV and his successors from 1433 onwards.
Thus the Great
Schism was ended, not by
Papal initiative but by a general council of the Church.