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A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957The Counter-Reformation is the name given to the Catholic movement of reform and activity which lasted for about one hundred years from the beginning of the Council of Trent (q.v., 1545), and was the belated answer to the threatening confusion and increasing attacks of the previous years. It was the work principally of the Popes St. Pius V and Gregory XIII and the Council itself in the sphere of authority, of SS. Philip Neri and Charles Borromeo in the reform of the clergy and of life, of St. Ignatius and the Jesuits in apostolic activity of St. Francis Xavier in foreign missions, and of St. Teresa in the purely contemplative life which lies behind them all. But these were not the only names nor was it a movement of a few only; the whole Church emerged from the 15th century purified and revivified. On the other hand, it was a reformation rather than a restoration; the unity of western Christendom was destroyed; the Church militant (those still on earth) led by the Company of Jesus adopted offence as the best means of defence and, though she gained as much as she lost in some sense, the Church did not recover the exercise of her former spiritual supremacy in actuality.
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Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980
A period of Catholic revival from 1522 to about 1648, better know as the Catholic Reform. It was an effort to stem the tide of Protestantism by genuine reform within the Catholic Church. There were political movements pressured by civil rules, and ecclesiastical movements carried out by churchmen in an attempt to restore genuine Catholic life by establishing new religious orders such as the Society of Jesus and restoring old orders to their original observances, such as the Carmelites under St. Teresa of Avila (1515-98). The main factors responsible for the Counter Reformation, however, were the papacy and the council of Trent (1545-63). Among church leaders St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), Archbishop of Milan, enforced the reforms decreed by the council, and St. Francis de Sales of Geneva (1567-1622) spent his best energies in restoring genuine Catholic doctrine and piety. Among civil rulers sponsoring the needed reform were Philip II of Spain (1527-98) and Mary Tudor (1516-58), his wife, in England. Unfortunately this aspect of the reformation led to embitterment between England and Scotland, England and Spain, Poland and Sweden, and to almost two centuries of religious wars. As a result of the Counter Reformation, the Catholic Church became stronger in her institutional structure, more dedicated to the work of evangelization, and more influential in world affairs.
They tried to keep The Bible away from the protestants and they persecuted any that they found with the bible and any thought followed the ideas in it or that came from people who were protestants. The Counter - Reformation was the movement within the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and 17th centuries that tried to eliminate abuses within that church and to respond to the Protestant Reformation
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The Roman Catholic as an organization did not like the developments that led to the Reformation. It did attempt to stop it in many instances.
to stop the spread of communism
They were objections to the Catholic church's practice of selling indulgences. They were written by a man named Martin Luther, and he wrote them in 1519 to question the Catholic Church and try to stop them from doing things they shouldn't be doing.
I think Martin Luther was declared a heretic not Martin Luther King.Martin Luther King, the American civil rights leader, was never declared a heretic by the Catholic Church.His namesake, Martin Luther, a 15th century Catholic monk, was however declared a heretic for teaching ideas and holding positions the Catholic Church understood to be false and a danger to the Faith as taught by the Church. His failure to stop his teaching of matters opposed to Catholic doctrine also brought him the penalty of being excluded from the Catholic community of believers, thus excommunicated.
to stop the spread of communism
To stop the spread of Protestantism. The Counter Reformation is a movement of internal renewal as well as a response to the spread of Protestantism.
The Council of Trent
the council of trent
The printing press allowed for widespread distribution of information, ideas, and criticisms of the Catholic Church, reducing the Church's control over the spread of knowledge and challenging its authority. This made it increasingly difficult for the Church to suppress dissent and control the narrative during the revolution.
There were many councils, papal bulls, and encyclicals on the spread of heresy up to the council of trent in 1551. This was the definetive eccumenical council addressing the most wide spread errors of the protestant revolution. The jesuits were also formed shortly before this and they were called on by the pope to help combat the errors of protestantism at this time by evangelizing, debating, and generating theological works against the emerging heretics or teachers of anti-Catholic doctrine.
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The Inquisition intended to stop the spread of heresy. Heresy, basically, covered the adoption, maintaining, and spreading any ideas that were contrary to the authorised teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. This included, but was not limited to, the teachings of Martin Luther and anybody who followed such teachings.
stop the French nobility from becoming Protestant.C. Stop the French nobility from becoming protestantObviously someone got this wrong. The real answer is B, do little to stop the spread of protestantism.
Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated Kennedy, not he Catholic Church.
There is no answer to the question as asked, as the Catholic Church has never, to the best of my knowledge, in two thousand years, ever, fined anybody for non-attendance. I think you have the Catholic Church confused with the Puritans!
your question is not clear , are you asking at what age do youth stop attending the catholic church?:S