Tag: Counter Reformation

Topic: Counter Reformation

Should it be called the Counter Reformation or Catholic Reformation?

Certain debate has stirred up around the name of the different Catholic movements that had the aim of defending or reforming the Catholic church. Can we call it a Counter-Reformation? What about a Catholic Reformation? Or, is there a better label to name these important movements? Many scholars who have studied the issue have questioned the same thing. Italian historian Massimo Firpo, among them. Catholic historian H. Jedin, on the basis that the term Counter-Reformation to define the period between the 16th century and 17th century where the Catholic church responded/reacted to the Protestant Reformation, argues for a redefinition of …

Brief overview of the Catholic Reformation

What roles did Pope Paul III, Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits, and the Council of Trent play in the Counter-Reformation? In the following post, I will briefly answer these questions and provide a brief overview of the Catholic/Counter-Reformation, including its roots. First of all, the Catholic/Counter-Reformation Reformation was the response and/or reaction of the Catholic church toward the challenges made by the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation started with Luther’s proclamation of the 95 theses in 1517 while Leo X was the Pope of the Catholic church. But it was not until the papacy of Paul III that significant …