Catholics called them heretics, they called themselves protestants.
The counter reformation was the Catholic Church's way of fighting back against the protestants.
Protestants were the people who during the European Reformation protested against the Roman Catholic Church.
The Roman Catholic Church (precisely, against its abuses).
The movement is called Protestant Reformation or the Protestant Revolt.The Protestant Reformation
Counter Reformation 16th-century reformation that arose largely in answer to the Protestant Reformation; sometimes called the Catholic Reformation. Although the Roman Catholic reformers shared the Protestants' revulsion at the corrupt conditions in the church, there was present none of the tradition breaking that characterized Protestantism. The Counter Reformation was led by conservative forces whose aim was both to reform the church and to secure the its traditions against the innovations of Protestant theology and against the more liberalizing effects of the Renaissance.
Catholic Reformation or Counter Reformation
The Reformation was devoted to reforming the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church
Roman Catholic AnswerThe political impact of the protestant revolt was what scholars call the Counter-Reformation or the Catholic Reformation.
Christians did not break away from the Catholic Church, they remained Christians, protestants broke away from the Catholic Church in the 16th century.
Type your answer here... The Catholic Church was the focus of the Protestant Reformation and was led by which of the following men?
The catholic reformation created a few different things. The main things that the catholic reformation created new religious orders and reform the catholic church to rejoin.