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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Pope Clement XIV
(LORENZO-or GIOVANNI VINCENZO ANTONIO-GANGANELLI).
Born at Sant' Arcangelo, near Rimini, 31 October, 1705; died at Rome, 22 September, 1774.
At the death of Clement XIII the Church was in dire distress. Gallicanism and Jansenism, Febronianism and Rationalism were up in rebellion against the authority of the Roman pontiff; the rulers of France, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Parma were on the side of the sectarians who flattered their dynastic prejudices and, at least in appearance, worked for the strengthening of the temporal power against the spiritual.
ConclaYe and Election of Clement VII. Instructions to Cardinal Farnese, Legate to the.The new pope would have to face a coalition of moral and political forces which Clement XIII had indeed manfully resisted, but failed to put down, or even materially to check. The great question between Rome and the Bourbon princes was the suppression of the Society of Jesus.
In France, Spain, and Portugal the suppression had taken place de facto; the accession of a new po