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The Council of Trent convened in response to the teaching and rapid spread of the Protestant Reformation. In fact, its primary intent was to condemn and refute every Reformed doctrine. The Council issued numerous decrees and formal statements of Catholic doctrine on topics of salvation, the sacraments, and the canon. This council met for twenty five sessions from 1545 to 1563. The decrees issued...

Gentiles, who followed not after justice,f might attain to justice, and that all might receive the adoption of sons. Him hath God set forth as a propitiator, through faith in his blood,g for our sins; and not for our sins only, but also for those of the whole world.h But, though He died for all,i yet do not all receive the benefit of His death; but those only, unto whom the merit of His passion is communicated. For as in truth men, if they were not born
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