Robby Julian G.

Lastimosa
RE-106
05/28/21
APPLICATION: CHURCH RENEWAL
COUNTER-REFORMATION EFFORTS DESCRIPTIONS
He argued that only the grace of God could save
people from punishment after death and that human
1. Martin Luther challenged the Roman
actions could not lead to salvation. He also based his
Catholic Church
theology on the Bible rather than on the traditions
and practices of the church.
At the Council of Trent, Pope Paul III gathered
bishops and religious intellectuals. The council, which
met three times between 1545 and 1563, had two
2. The Council of Trent.
major responsibilities. The first was to deal with
Protestant beliefs that cast doubt on the Catholic
Church.
Throughout the 1500s, Popes took the lead in
combating the rise of Protestantism. In 1559, Pope
3. The Papacy Paul IV published the first Index of Prohibited Books,
a list of books that Catholics were not authorized to
read without a bishop's permission.
Local authorities, as influential as the pope was, had
a far greater impact on individual Catholics. High
church leaders had made alliances with kings in
4. Local Authorities
Catholic countries by the end of the 1500s. Local
bishops have also taken on more responsibility in
their religious communities.
Reform-minded Catholics were dedicated to
combating superstition and ignorance among their
flock. This conflict manifested itself in a variety of
5. Keeping the Faith
ways. Bishops and pastors began to pay more
attention to their sermons than ever before in the late
1500s.

Source: https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/catholic-reformation-and-counter-reformation