Transcript The Catholic Reformation

The Catholic
Reformation
Catholic Reformation
The Catholic Church’s attempt to reform itself
and halt the spread of Protestantism.
I. Pope Paul III and the Council of Trent
II. Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits
III. The Inquisition
IV. The Index of Prohibited Books
V. The Effects of the Protestant and Catholic
Reformations
Pope Paul III
 Pope from 1534-1549
 Cardinal at the age of
25
 Promoted reformminded cardinals
 Called for meeting at
Trent, Italy to discuss
abuses of Church
The Council of Trent
Church
council called
to clarify the
Church’s
teachings.
Prohibited
sale of
indulgences
Council
of Trent
Outlawed
simony
Seminaries
est. to train
priests
Cleansed
monasteries
/convents of
immoral
behavior
Purpose of
council was to
define Catholic
beliefs and
correct Church
Abuses
The Jesuits
 Disciplined & welleducated order of Catholic
priests
 Founded by Ignatius
Loyola in 1539
 Won Poland & southern
Germany back for Church
 Spread Catholicism
across Africa, Asia, & the
Americas
The Inqusition
 Church court
designed to judge
& convict heretics
 Imprisoned, exiled
or executed those
who failed to
recant
The Index of Prohibited Books
 List of banned books which Catholics
were forbidden to read
 Included Protestant Bibles and some
scientific writings
The Effects of the Protestant
and Catholic Reformations
 Several new Protestant denominations were
formed and spread throughout the world
 Church leaders reformed the Catholic Church
 Religious intolerance and anti-Semitism increased
(esp. in southern Europe)
 Religious conflicts and wars spread across
Europe for hundreds of years
 Nationalism increased as people looked more to
their national monarchs than to Catholic Church