Great Western Schism

[OwenM]

Is there anyway this could have ended in a more explicitly Concilarian Catholic Church?
Either through something like Urban living longer and Avignon having someone less, um, self-isolating than Benedict XIII, or maybe Constance successfully getting Martin V (or whoever they make the new Pope) to ratify the declaration that it was the supreme authority?
And could this render the Reformation even more of a fractious and complicated affair than it was OTL?

 

[Md139115]

The important things to remember about the Papacy in this period is “Who are the major foreign backers?” and “How independent can the pope be of them?” The Schism happened in large part because France wanted far more control over the Papacy than it historically enjoyed. Now on councils, the issue is: “Does the investiture of the highest theological authority positively or negatively impact any of the major powers, and if so, what has to happen in Europe to make that happen?”

 

[Dan1988]

One possible route - take the unclear and often murky circumstances surrounding the beginnings of the Old Catholic Church during the Dutch Revolt and expand it from there. (As long as ITTL there is less support for Jansenism in the Dutch underground Catholic Church and if it's someone other than the Jesuits sustaining the faith.) If the Dutch case makes the Vatican more accommodating to local tradition, then that could help advance conciliarism overall.