How Did The Catholic Church Respond To Reformation
The Catholic Church responded to the Reformation in political and religious ways that were known as the Catholic Reformation. For example, Catholics created the Council of Trent to fight Protestantism while also reforming the Church. In 1540, Pope Paul III recognized the Jesuits, who preached about getting Protestants back to the Catholic faith, as a new order of priests. The Spanish Inquisition was put into place by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to find and punish Spaniards guilty of heresy, causing 2,000 guilty of it to be executed. The Spanish monarchs ordered all Jews and Muslims to either convert to Catholicism or leave Spain. When England won against Spain in the Spanish Armada, the English gained the respect of other European