What was the worldview of Pope Gregory the Great?
Here’s Gregory’s outlook towrads Catholicism & life, in general, an excerpt taken from the online Catholic Encyclopedia, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06780a.htm as follows: “Life and Work in Rome As pope Gregory still lived with monastic simplicity. One of his first acts was to banish all the lay attendants, pages, etc., from the Lateran palace, and substitute clerics in their place. There was now no magister militum living in Rome, so the control even of military matters fell to the pope. The inroads of the Lombards had filled the city with a multitude of indigent refugees, for whose support Gregory made provision, using for this purpose the existing machinery of the ecclesiastical districts, each of which had its deaconry or “office of alms”. The corn thus distributed came chiefly from Sicily and was supplied by the estates of the Church. The temporal needs of his people being thus provided for, Gregory did not neglect their spiritual wants, and a large number of his sermons have
