The counter-reformation
Europe was definatley changing in the 1500’s, it was sort of growing up and started to discover new ways of technology and education. The printing press emerged and expanded knowledge, theories, new ideas all across Europe Protestants were to open-minded to new ideas and new ways of life, they did not want to live their lives soley for god but for themselves. Because of this, many people began moving away from religion and heavily towards hummanism. However, the Catholic churches held all power and authority, they controled the books and the knowledge, and they enforced Catholic teaching and defended the official doctrine. The proggesive minds of the protestants did not want the Catholic Church System in power, the churches regressive ways were holding the world back from expansion and evolution. The conflict was just waiting to happen, and the result was the Reformation. Protestants all across Europe revolted in an attempt to take power away from the Catholic church. The Catholic Churches would do everything they could in order to stop the Reformation. They would proh
ibit books which promoted protestant ways, they would find and try protestants for not believing in the communities faith, and Jesuits would take over protestant land which they claimed was their's. This was the Catholic's Counter-Reformation which would end in a Protestant north and a Catholic south. The Catholic Churches reggresive ideas and traditional ways was what was creating a problem. Having a government with traditional values and morals in an advancing world was just not going to work. The Church needed to let the world progress and to stop living in the past. Protestants all over Europe no longer wanted to be governed by a Catholic system, it was time to move on, but the Catholic Church just couldn't accept this, they needed to mantain they're power and control. But in order to mantain this control, the church began to do some pretty awful things; The Roman Inquisition was one of them. The Roman Inquistion was basically to rid Italy of all non-catholics. Since the people were governed by Catholics, anyone who wasn't Catholic was considered an enemy and a traitor to the state,
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