Jesuit missionary St. Peter Canisius leveraged the printing press to counter Protestant errors and spread Catholic teaching.

This approach is highly original; it sees in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation an attempt not to check but to extend and come to terms with the more individualistic and modern environment in which ...

The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith. John O'Malley, a distinguished scholar of the Renaissance and Reformation, has decisively challenged this ...

In his first book, The Counter-Reformation in the Villages, (Cornell University Press, 1992) he argued that the local people in the region around the city of Speyer remained loyal to the Catholic ...

What happened to the fervent Marian piety of the late Middle Ages during Germany's Reformation and Counter-Reformation? It has been widely assumed that Mary disappeared from Protestant devotional life ...

During her 18 years of imprisonment Mary became the focus of several plots to kill Elizabeth and place her on the English thone as the figurehead of a Catholic counter-reformation. These plots ...

In politics… Liberated from the exclusive grasp of the Catholic Church ... forever divided the Christian world prompting the Counter-Reformation. People still argue about what the Renaisssance ...

In politics… Liberated from the exclusive grasp of the Catholic Church, education filtered down ... in faith and forever divided the Christian world prompting the Counter-Reformation. People still ...