The Counter-Reformation

Objective: understand the principal characteristics of the Counter-Reformation.

Character counts: Trustworthiness

 Roman Catholic efforts against the Protestant Reformation and toward internal renewal. 

The Counter-Reformation took place during roughly the same period as the Protestant Reformation.

16th Century and 17th Century

Rome

Spain

Jesuits

Roman Catholic Church

The Counter-Reformation served to solidify doctrines that many Protestants were opposed to, such as the authority of the pope and the veneration of saints, and eliminated many of the abuses and problems that had initially inspired the Reformation, such as the sale of indulgences for the remission of sin.

Catholic education and missionary work.

With the colonization of the New World.