Jesuits
Ignatius of Loyola
The Basque soldier who founded the Jesuits, the most effective instrument of the Counter-Reformation.
Peter Canisius
The Jesuit “second apostle of Germany,” whose catechisms answered Luther’s for two centuries.
Robert Bellarmine
The Jesuit cardinal whose Disputations became Rome’s standard systematic answer to Protestant theology.
The Counter-Reformation
The Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation: its roots before Luther, the Council of Trent and its anathemas, the Jesuits, the Roman Inquisition and the Index, and what it reformed and what it refused.
The Counter-Reformation
The Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation: its roots before Luther, the Council of Trent and its anathemas, the Jesuits, the Roman Inquisition and the Index, and what it reformed and what it refused.
The Jesuits
The Society of Jesus: Ignatius of Loyola, the Spiritual Exercises, the Jesuits at Trent, their schools and missions, the English mission, and the Reformation response.
The Jesuits
The Society of Jesus: Ignatius of Loyola, the Spiritual Exercises, the Jesuits at Trent, their schools and missions, the English mission, and the Reformation response.

