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| | Counter-Reformation |
 | | The century before the outbreak of the Reformation was marked by increasing and widespread dismay with the venality of the bishops and their involvement in politics, with the ignorance and superstition of the lower clergy, with the laxity of religious orders, and with the sterility of academic theology. |
 | | The corrupt hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church was dramatically reformed in the wake of the Council of Trent. |
 | | H Daniel - Rops, The Catholic Reformation; J Delumeau, Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire; A G Dickens, The Counter - Reformation; P Dudon, St. Ignatius of Loyola; H O Evennett, The Spirit of the Counter - Reformation; B J Kidd, The Counter - Reformation, 1550 - 1600; The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, tr. |
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