Chapter 15 (715-739)

The Catholic Reformation on page 723, discussed how the Catholics decided to break away fro the protestant view. Before the protestants, they had rules on priest education before the protestants took over, so during the reformation, they wanted to restore their beliefs and became even more strict than they were before. This involved locking down the area, and flushing out the bad with new rules. For instance, putting more emphasis on priest education, censoring educational readings, ridding the area of heretics, and creating a new "motto" for their religious practices. I found this section to be very interesting when I'd found that the Catholics were even getting rid of people to take back their religion. I had a few questions that came to mind, it was mentioned that they burned the heretics, but I wondered how they went about finding heretics. What was the procedure they took in finding them? Were there women and children involved? Did they make it public or keep it in the dark?