What exactly was the Roman Catholic Church doing during the time of Muhammad?

Question

I'm just thinking that they would have taken interest in Muhammad.

Answer 1

*Is Catholic*

Surviving, reforming, gathering together the glories of fallen civilization, and trying to create political stability is a good summary.

In the 600's AD the Roman Empire had fallen apart. The Western Empire was essentially in ruins and there was a giant political and social vacuum. The Eastern Empire survived and was heading into its golden years, its Renaissance. It was becoming the Byzantine Empire.

The Roman Catholic Church was primarily trying to save the last visages of culture and society that was left in the west. Pope St. Gregory the Great began great reform and restructuring of the Church, including monastic reform. Missionary activity, especially to the British Isles began under Gregory. Political alliances with the Franks and Lombards were begun. Rome spent a lot of time screaming at the Eastern Church and the Eastern Empire to send money and military support. The Byzantine Empire would ignore the pleas and Rome would ally with the Franks in the 700's to create the Holy Roman Empire as a means to keep stability and peace in western Europe.

The great African Churches would fall to Islam as it exploded out of the great deserts. The Roman Catholic Church had no power and there was no political force in western Europe to stop this.

This chapter from a book also gives good background info.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/HERESY4.TXT

Answer 2

I'm working from memory but I think Muhammad lived about 400 years after Jesus and the Great Schism (which split the Catholic Church into Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox) occurred about 1200 years after Jesus.

So, I think the question would be in regard to the one and only Catholic Church at the time of Muhammad's life.

I'll do a little checking and get back to you with the dates.

Added after some research:
-The Great Schism (which I didn't know is sometimes called the Eastern Schism) occurred sometime in the mid eleventh century.
-Muhammad was born sometime around 570.

Answer 3

They were just a wee bit occupied by the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and most of Western civilization.

And mikalina needs a history lesson. The prophet Muhammad lived during the 600s AD.

Answer 4

They teach him pbuh at the Vatican
its really great course take it
you will never go to the other side of that darkness again

the structure of the book is enough proof to blow the entire theory of the catholic church to ruin.. and they know it..

When asked by top ulima.. "You know about Islam and Muhammed SAW" They say" Well of course our book points to him manytimes"
ulima : then why keep this going like this?
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH ALL THE MONEY THEY SEND?

Al hamdoullah Rub Alameen
"

Answer 5

They may have taken an interest in him, but so what? i do not wish to worship Mohamed or a statue of Christ's mother or any of the dead saints, or the ones they just claim to be saints, or the pope for that matter.

I am only concerned about Jesus, the only Holy One who actually matters. Neither Mo hammed , nor the Pope can save you.

Answer 6

At the time, when the priests go to a certain level, it was revealed to them that the New Testament was indeed a fraud.
Muhammad was a member of the original church and was in the running for a high position (Even Pope maybe I think) but he didn't get it so in a hissy fit he said that if they could invent a religion so could he!
Hence Islam was created. Just as fraudulent as Christianity.

Answer 7

Building Schools,
Building Churches,
Building Hospitals,
Building Monasteries.
Creating a Christian civilization in Europe.
Preaching the Gospels to lands that have not heard of it yet.
Trying to make it possible for pilgrims to visit the Holy Land that the Muslim were beginning to block Christians from.

Answer 8

Spreading throughout the world. They were in Rome and all through Europe into Egypt and even in Arabia.
Muhammad started out as one man then some followers and grew from there.
No one paid much attention to them until oil was discovered. Then they decided to run their own country and kicked the Brits out. 1929?
God Bless!

Answer 9

Muhammed the founder of Islam lived around 536 AD. the Catholic Church was not founded until the 1200s or something around that.

Answer 10

Have you ever heard of the Crusades?? The Catholic Church was protecting Europe from being overrun by the Mohammedan hoards. If they didn't, Europe would quickly have become 100% Islamic; and so would North and South America, since they would have been settled by Islamic Europeans.