HANDOUT FOR APRIL 16: THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION
"If the church defines anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we must declare it to be black" – Ignatius Loyola
Chronology:
1436-1517: Cardinal Jimenez reforms Catholic church in Spain.
1480: Spanish Inquisition begins.
1483-1542: Cardinal Gasparo Contarini.
1537: Leads commission on church reform (consilium de emendanda).
1541: Attends Regensburg Colloquy, an unsuccessful attempt to reach common ground between Catholics and Protestants.
1491-1556: Ignatius Loyola.
1540: Founds Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
1506-1552: Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary in China and Japan.
1515-1582: Teresa of Avila, Spanish mystic.
1534-1549: Pope Paul III.
1542: Permanent Office of the Inquisition established in Rome.
1545-1563: Council of Trent.
1559: Vatican draws up Index of Prohibited Books.