The Counter-Reformation

To be banished from the catholic church, and apparently whoever is excommunicated won't be allowed in heaven

Pardons issued by the pope of the Roman Catholic Church that could reduce a soul's time in purgatory; from the 1100s to the 1500s, indulgences could be purchased, which led to corruption

An organized burning of materials

to inflict pain in order to gain information

A meeting of church leaders in the 1500s to clearly define church documents and mainly to stop the spread of Protestantism

The Catholic Church's series of reforms in response to the spread of Protestantism in the mid-1500s to the early 1600s

Giralomo Savanarola preached about the abuses of the churches in the 1400s and persuaded his followers to burn their jewelry and trinkents in an enormous fire so they had money to help the poor

Church leaders tortured and killed groups of people that opposed the church (protestants, jews, muslims)

a list of books that the catholic church outlaws and claim that if you read these books you’ll go to hell

basically the time when people accused other people (mostly women) of being witches because of mob mentality

To stop the spread of Protestantism and to reform the church from within

They were persecuted for their beliefs especially in spain

They are tried in illogical trials, tortured and killed

-killed anybody that opposed the churh
-created the index of forbidden books