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The Catholic Counter-Reformation - Coggle Diagram
The Catholic Counter-Reformation
The Courts of Inquisition
Set up to
arrest
,
try
and
punish
ANYONE who was a threat to Church teachings.
Imprisonment and torture were used on
heretics
to get them to
recant
their views.
If guilty of a serious offence, you were
burned at the stake
. Carried out in public.
Limited the spread of the Reformation - particularly in Italy and Spain.
New Religious Orders
The Church realised they needed to reconnect with the faithful.
A number of
new religious orders
were
founded
e.g Ursuline Nuns and Capuchin Monks.
Society of Jesus (
Jesuits
) were founded by
Ignatius Loyola
in 1534.
Run like an
army
- Ignatius Loyola (the General) and the
Priest 'Soldiers'.
They followed orders without question.
Travelled the world
- converting (South Americans) and introducing (Chinese and Japanese) people to Catholicism.
Set up schools
for sons of nobles and wealthy families.
Council of Trent
: The Church's response to the attack on its teachings by Reformers.
Clarified Catholic teachings
and stated the Reformers were wrong.
1.
Faith and good works were required to get to Heaven.
2.
7 Sacraments.
3.
Mass and Bible
MUST
be in Latin.
4.
Designed a '
Rulebook
' that Catholics could follow - the
Catechism
.
The
Cardinals and Bishops
attempted to
impose discipline
.
1.
Church abuses were banned
- Simony, Pluralism, Nepotism, Absenteeism and Sale of Indulgences.
2.
Priests were trained in their local diocese.
3.
Priests
were to be
celibate
and
not marry
. Punished if they broke these rules.
4.
Published a list of books that Catholics were banned from reading.