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What was the biggest problem that catholic leaders had to solve at the council of trent

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Counter-reform

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The Council of Trent was the 13th council of the Catholic Church and was called the Ecumenical Council. It took place between the years 1546 to 1563. Convoked by Pope Paul III, in 1546, he met in the Italian Tirol, in the city of Trento. He was also guided by other Popes, Julius III, Paul IV, Pius V, Gregory XIII and Sixtus V, lasting 18 years and concluding his work only in 1563. There were 25 plenary sessions, in three different periods (from 1545 to 1547; from 1551 to 1552; and from 1562 to 1563), when all these sessions were solemnly promulgated in public session.

As the movement to renew the Christian Church, the Protestant Reformation of 1517, began in Europe in that 16th century, there was this Catholic reaction, called Counter-Reformation, as a theological, political and military effort of Catholic reorganization and confrontation with Protestantism; and all of its Catholic doctrines were discussed to respond to Protestant doctrinal criticism. The wars and conflicts between Catholics and Protestants also continued for decades, culminating in the atrocious Thirty Years' War that tore through half of Europe, ending only in 1648, with the Peace of Westphalia, and the demarcation of Catholic political and religious territories and borders. and Protestants.

Counter-reform, also called Catholic Reform, was an enormous effort against criticism from Protestants and other opponents. For this purpose the mystical movements, in Spain of Teresa de Ávila and João da Cruz, and of Inácio de Loiola, who created the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), served to expand and strengthen Catholicism. This was done through the Franciscan, Dominican and Jesuit orders that were the Catholic reaction in the East and in the Americas as well. Thus, the Catholic Church took steps to revive faith and religious discipline and its most effective tools were the Council of Trent, the Inquisition and Index of the banned books, for the reconquest of territories that Catholicism had lost to Protestants.

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The primary purpose of the council was to condemn and refute the beliefs of the Protestants, such as Martin Luther and John Calvin, and also to make the set of beliefs in Catholicism even clearer.

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