Readings: Reformation & Counter Reformation; The Catholic Reformation; A Brief History of the Jesuits (Society of Jesus)

Video: Saints & Sinners: The History of the Popes (Season 1; Episode 4); St. Ignacius of Loyola; Pioneers of the Spirit: Ingnatius Loyola; Francis Xavier

Study Questions:

1. How did the Catholic Church respond to the changes wrought by the Protestant Reformation?
2. What influence did the Ignatius of Loyola exhert upon the counter-reformation?
3. How did subsequent Popes develop the counter-reformation?