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The Council was interrupted when military forces from the recently-united [[Kingdom of Italy]] occupied Rome after the fall of the French Second Empire, which had until that time acted as protectors of the last remnants of the [[Papal States]]. Partly for this reason, it never achieved the importance of the previous [[Council of Trent]] or the following [[Second Vatican Council]], both of which significantly reformed the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, the First Vatican Council was instrumental in reestablishing the credibility of the Papacy as well as a sense of Catholic unity and identity, all of which had suffered from the upheavals of the Napoleonic Era and the recent Unification of Italy.
The Council was interrupted when military forces from the recently-united Kingdom of Italy occupied Rome after the fall of the French Second Empire, which had until that time acted as protectors of the [[Papal States]].
The First Vatican Council never achieved the importance of the previous [[Council of Trent]] or the following [[Second Vatican Council]], both of which significantly reformed the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, the First Vatican Council was instrumental in reestablishing the credibility of the Papacy as well as a sense of Catholic unity and identity, all of which had suffered from the upheavals of the Napoleonic Era and the recent Unification of Italy.
==Further reading==
* Hennesey, James. ''The First Council of the Vatican: The American Experience'' (1963) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-first-council-of-the-vatican-the-american-experience-by-james-hennesey.jsp online edition]
* Kirch, Joseph. "Vatican Council." in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia.'' Vol. 15. (1912) [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15303a.htm online]
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