The Catholic reformation ultimate refusal to compromise with protestantism was exemplified by?

Answer 1

"The Reformation" is the Protestant term for the people who had issues, shall we say, with the Catholic church of their day, and refused to compromise with the Church. So they broke away and founded their own churches. The same historians who refer to "The Reformation" refer to the Catholic Church's reaction as the "Counter-reformation". Probably what you are referring to is the Council of Trent, which was an Ecumenical Council which meant in the 16th century to deal with the errors of the "reformers". Most of the errors of the time, which sparked, for instance, Martin Luther's protest were not of the church itself, but of individuals, and/or misunderstanding by Martin Luther himself. Indulgences, for instance, have never been "sold", that would be the sin of Simony, a very serious sin. The errors which brought about his objections were rectified. Pope Saint Pius V oversaw an new Catechism, The Catechism of the Council of Trent, also, the Mass was codified, approved, and published, and all other rites of the church that were less than two hundred years old were suppressed. In the language of the Church, all of the "reformers" were heretics, rejected to some degree, some more, some less, the Christian church which we received in an unbroken line from the Apostles. There can never be "compromise" with sin and heresy, so all those people who separated themselves from the church were declared anathema, the church reformed the errors that had been brought to light, and then attempted through saints like St. Charles Borremeo, St. Francis de Sales, and St. Ignatius, to re-evangelise those who had been separated from the church. This effort continues to this day through Pope Benedict XVI.