The Catholic Counter: Reformation

Question 1

The courts of inquisition:

Answer 1

• The church set up a court to try people who held views that were different to that of the Catholic church.

Question 2

What happened when people were found guilty?

Answer 2

They could be fined, flogged, imprisoned or burned at the stake. The burnings were done in public as a threat to others.

Question 3

What’s a another word for burning at the stake?

Answer 3

An Auto-da-fé

Question 4

New religious orders:

Answer 4

• The church realised that it needed to reconnect with its committed and faithful believers. Therefore, new religious orders were set up.

Question 5

What religious order was founded in 1534?

Answer 5

Jesuits by ignatius Loyola

Question 6

What did Jesuits do?

Answer 6

The travelled around carrying out missionary work (going to other countries to teach about Christianity). They went to the new world converting the natives to Catholicism.

Question 7

What were Jesuits like?

Answer 7

They excelled in education. They founded schools. Their ideas are well ahead of their time and so their students were well educated.

Question 8

The council of Trent:

Answer 8

It was a meeting of leading cardinals and bishops to tackle issues that currently existed in the church and to respond to the reformation’s attack on its teachings.

Question 9

When did the council meet?

Answer 9

3 times between 1545 and 1563