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Counter Reformation Part 2

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Counter Reformation Part 2

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sale of indulgences but they spoke out against the abuse of the sale of indulgences is another words using them as a tool to raise money and they instructed that the illiteracy of the priest was going to be addressed priest needed to be educated and literate and be able to really do their job in an educated way in terms of reform within the church they really didn't make a lot of steps in terms of trying to rein in a lot of the things which had been giving the Catholic Church a bad name for a few centuries now and finally the Council of Trent had to take action in order to put forth these reform and really their actions were all about to root out what they saw as heresy so number one they created the Jesuit order the Jesuit order was going to be in charge of really education but it was also going to be in charge of carrying out the work of bring out heresy so interval weird Confluence they set up some of the greatest universities and education systems throughout Europe they go about conversion efforts in areas of the world which were being colonized is the specially by the Spanish and the Portuguese they convert natives throughout North and South America and really try to educate them on Christian doctrine Catholic Doctrine if you will and sort of getting them towards the road to salvation but the Jesuits were also in charge of the Inquisition and trying to find Heretics and get them out and make them confess and then do some pretty nasty things to do other than Catholic Church did is they created the index of prohibited books and the index of prohibited books was going to expand and expand expand and really what it is it's a list of books that Catholics should not read because they have teachings they have ideas with the Catholic Church determines to be well Dad and think about this in this era of Enlightenment understanding of things and in this area where we see liberate Banned Book week and all of that is really hard for us to understand the idea of banning books but in a purely religious sense the world is caught in a battle between God and Satan and those things which are not are by definition tricks of the devil to try and gain Souls getting rid of those takes away the Temptation from souls and allows them an easier path to Salvation so make sense I'm not saying I'm a fan of banning books but it makes sense especially at the time so what were the effects of the Council of Trent well education throughout Europe definitely benefited from the Jesuit universities that were put up so it really made it the protestantism couldn't really take hold in southern Europe so they held on to Italy and the south of the Holy Roman Empire Spain Portugal areas like that and does lots of the new colonies what you're being established what is success well the Catholic Church still stands today as a very powerful institution and they don't meet again to change Catholic belief Dogma practices or anything else until Vatican 2 on the other hand protestantism does flourish in the north of Europe it does spread to colonies in some areas especially those, those areas colonized by the Dutch and the British and protestantism is so alive today so it's a mixed bag but the Catholic Reformation The Counter Reformation does try to stop the Reformation but hold the line with we're right on the beliefs and that's what's important enough that's about it for the Council of Trent

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