Catholic Reformation & Jesuits

-effort to reform the Catholic Church from within(counter reformation)
-1500's & 1600's church leaders worked to strength church and stop spread of Protestantism
-most leaders from Southern Europe,Spain -fought to make Catholicism only religion
-Religious orders first founded 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola-Jesus-Jesuits
Jesuits religious order serve pope and church
-disciplined as soldiers Jesuits-''soldiers'' Ignatius-''general''
-goals teach about Catholic ideas hoped turn against Protestant
-other orders created Angela Merici -Ursuline order taught females