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Paul IV

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Paul IV, 1476–1559, pope (1555–59), a Neapolitan named Gian Pietro Carafa; successor of Marcellus II. First superior of the Theatines (see Cajetan, Saint Cajetan, Saint , 1480–1547, Italian churchman and reformer. Son of the count of Thiene, he studied civil and canon law, but abandoned work as a jurist at the papal court to become a priest.
..... Click the link for more information. ), he was sternly ascetic. A leading reformer, he organized the Inquisition set up by Paul III. As pope, he labored to purify the clergy and abolish corruption and worldliness from the papal curia, thus promoting reform (see Counter Reformation Counter Reformation, 16th-century reformation that arose largely in answer to the Protestant Reformation; sometimes called the Catholic Reformation. Although the Roman Catholic reformers shared the Protestants' revulsion at the corrupt conditions in the church, there
..... Click the link for more information. ). He repudiated the settlement between Mary I of England and Reginald Cardinal Pole Pole, Reginald, 1500–1558, English churchman, archbishop of Canterbury (1556–58), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a cousin of the Tudors, being the son of Sir Richard Pole and of Margaret, countess of Salisbury, who was the daughter of
..... Click the link for more information. , and he later declared Elizabeth I illegitimate and unfit to be queen. He was succeeded by Pius IV.
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The Church adopted the sexual abstinence as a remedy in order to avoid the syphilis and Pope Paul IV, around to the half of the '500, decreed with an edict an evicting from Rome and all the Papal State of the prostitutes.
History of Syphilis by Prof. Camillo Di Cicco, M.D. / Health, general community
Mayer begins with an analysis of various court documents, and concludes that even though Paul IV had apparently revoked Pole's legatine office, the matter remained unsettled, and Pole probably continued to function in that capacity until the end of Mary's reign.
The Church of Mary Tudor by Thorne, Linda Gibson / Renaissance Quarterly
When Pope Paul IV was elected in 1555, Ignatius Loyola [founder of the Jesuits] said he shook to his very bones," Mr.
Meet The Pope! For Benedict XVI, A Wary Welcome by Terry Golway / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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