how has Pope Benedict XIV impacted our society?

Answer 1

negatively

Answer 2

He had a very active papacy, reforming the education of priests, the calendar of feasts of the Church, and many papal institutions. Perhaps the most important act of Benedict XIV's pontificate was the promulgation of his famous laws about missions in the two bulls, Ex quo singulari and Omnium solicitudinum. In these bulls he ruled on 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 Indian and Chinese missions. An example of this is the statues of ancestors - there had long been uncertainty whether honor paid to ones ancestors was unacceptable 'ancestor worship,' or if it was something more like the Catholic veneration of the saints. This question was especially pressing in the case of an ancestor known not to have been a Christian. The choice of a Chinese translation for the name of God had also been debated since the early 1600s. Benedict XIV denounced these practices in these two bills. The consequence of this was that many of these converts left the Church.

Benedict XIV was also responsible, along with Cardinal Passionei, for beginning the catalogue of the Vatican Library and in 1757, he entrusted the relics of St. Donatus of Libya, a beheaded corpse, to the Third Order Franciscans, in the village of Vila do Conde, Portugal.

Answer 3

By carrying on the Message of Jesus Christ in unbroken lineages.

Mt 16:18, Jn 14:16 Lk 1:32-33, Jn 16:13

Answer 4

If i decide for Dali, i visit get thumbs down. If i decide for the pope, i visit get some. So perhaps all of us ought to come to a call to fulfill the two regardless of their religious theory because of the fact they're the two distinctive and you will study to quit giving thumbs all the way down to those who've distinctive comments to yours because of the fact you may continually study from others. i do no longer think of that the pope might provide thumbs all the way down to the dali Lama nor the Dali lama will say that he hates the pope because of the fact he has nazzi viewpoints. They the two have their shrink back, yet we ought to continually additionally learnt to rejoice with the goo area of them. even with each and every thing they're the two human and we are certainly one even with our distinction. i'm no longer a spiritual individual and that i do no longer comply to any form of philosophy regardless of if i does no longer mine assembly and listening to what this 2 adult men ought to declare. to boot to the dalai Lama, i might placed the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and the Ayatollah of Iran. just to make certain the way it would be to have those adult men who've distinctive attitude of existence in an thrilling debate

Answer 5

I find him too conservative, and that he is pushing back the small steps that the Church made toward being a more liberal organization. I think that he will polarize the church a bit, and definitely have a negative impact (depending on your point of view) in the areas of prevention of pregnancy and in the lives of those who find themselves in the GLBT community.

Answer 6

I am not Catholic, how ever I follow what is going on with the religion.

I believe he has taken Catholicism back to square one. How sad that the Catholic church appointed a man who has taken steps of former popes to become more contemporary and tossed them out the window.

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LOL - trick question...

Answer 7

I don't know, I wasn't around back then. Now, if you mean Benedict XVI, then I still don't know, bacause I haven't been paying attention to him.

Answer 8

What Happened?
Did he Crash his Pope-Mobile?
Hope not!
Hahahaha.
Ditto...............................

Answer 9

Don't have a clue..

Answer 10

He hasn't.