6 янв 1545 г. - The pope called the Council of Trent

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A meeting of Catholic bishops and cardinals to establish a unified response to the Protestant threat.
The Council concluded that the majority of established Church doctrine was legitimate
- the belief that the Catholic clergies’ interpretation of the Bible was final and not open to discussion with laypersons, faith alone was not enough for salvation, believers must also do good works to achieve salvation (a direct rejection of Luther’s Justification by Faith), and Church doctrine was equal to the Bible as a source of religious truth.
The Council of Trent did acknowledge that corruption was a problem including the circulation of misinformation about the power of indulgences
- The church refused to reject indulgences outright, they did call for reform in the promise made to purchasers.
In the end the Counter Reformation, or the Catholic Reformation as it is also called, slowed the spread of the Protestant Reformation and secured Catholicism in much of Southern Europe.

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