4.10 Catholic counter-reformation

Catholic Counter-reformation/Catholic reformation

Re-examining the Church and its teachings

Cardinal Toledo Jiminez

- purified monasteries of corruption and eliminated laxity in the clergy
- believed in education

St. Ignatius of Loyola

- founder of the Jesuits (Company of Jesus): order based on military discipline and high educational standards
- emphasized obedience to the Pope

Council of Trent (1545-1563)

helped shape the direction of liturgy, catechetics, theology, Church law and authority for the next four centuries

Order for the mass

establishment that outlined rubrics, texts, and behaviour expected at liturgy

Catechetics

Emphasis that Catholics should have good religious training (Creed, Liturgy, commandments)

Thomas Aquinas

Trent relied on this person for the on theology of God, Trinity, Incarnation, Church, Sacraments, Morality

Church Law

laws about Communion fast, Lenten fast, Friday abstinence, marriage laws

Magisterium

authority of the official teachers of the Church
MAINLY POPE AND BISHOPS