Living Our Faith: Reformation Series — Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent

The story of the Catholic Church at the time the 16th-century Catholic Counter-Reformation began is multidimensional.

What today may escape notice are the efforts in the 1500s by new religious orders and congregations to renew Catholic life.
As a response to the Reformation, the Council of Trent was convened by Pope Paul III in 1545 to make clear the church’s teachings. The council, which met in 25 sessions over a period of 18 years, presented its teaching in direct response to the teachings of the reformers.