An indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven by God.
The great protest against the Church in the sixteenth century was known as the Counter-Reformation.
Reformation is a false doctrine that states that God, regardless of any efforts people make to live good lives on earth, chooses some people for heaven and some for hell.
The invention of the printing press had a negative impact on the Protestant Reformation.
____________________ wrote a list of Church-related issues in need of reform known as the Ninety-five Theses.
__________________ is a severe penalty imposed by the Church for serious sins against the Catholic religion; it brings exclusion from participation in the sacraments of the Church.
_______________________ rejected the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and declared that the Bible was the only source of faith.
__________________________ headed the papal commission to complete the publication of a universal catechism, a summary of Catholic faith to guide the whole Church.
The _______________________ is the period in history in which the Church answered, or countered, the crisis begun by the Protestant Reformation.
The Council of Trent (1545-1563) proved to be an important general council. What were some things that the Council of Trent focused on?