Vatican I
When and where
    1870 AD in St. Peter's Basilica,
Vatican City
Crisis or controversy
    A return to life of the Catholic Church:
needed a revival of religious life
    General restoration and restatement
of the faith was needed;
    Christian marriages and education
needed safeguarding.
Attendees
    747 bishops;
    Convened & Ratified : Pius IX, Pope
Decrees and resolutions
    Promulgated decrees on the Catholic
      Faith and on the Church;
    Condemned the Rationalists and
      Semirationalists;
    Defined the charism of infallibility.
Façade, St. Peter’ Basilica