history; Counter-Reformation (1545–1648)

what are the protestant churches/reformation?

The Protestant churches refer to religious groups that broke away from the Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation. These churches were founded by people who disagreed with some of the Catholic Church's teachings and practices.

Protestant Reformation:

a movement that wanted to change the Catholic Church because they didn’t agree with some of its practices. This led to a split from the Catholic Church.

protestant churches:

These are the new Christian churches that were created during the Protestant Reformation. They follow different beliefs than the Catholic Church.

catholic churches

the catholic churches wanted to fix the problems and stop people from joining protestant churches

so what did they do?

they created new religious groups;

• the capuchins in italy

• the jesuits in spain

paul II created council meetings to make rules to improve the catholic churches because he was convinced it was the only way to deal with the problems caused by the protestant reformation

and what happens?

with that, the church became stronger, but the fights between the catholics and the protestants continued which lead to wars in europe