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 ...

Five hundred years ago, a young German monk began the Protestant Reformation, shattering the authority of the Catholic Church. Centuries later, there are signs that the churches have put aside ...

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

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 ...

The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith ... and individuals which together constituted the Catholic Church in the period from the fifteenth through ...

In Catholic areas baroque art and piety flourished, but the militant Virgin associated with the Counter-Reformation did not always dominate religious devotion. Traditional manifestations of Marian ...