The Counter-Reformation

Rev. Maurice W. Sheehan O.F.M. Cap., academic dean of Holy Apostles Seminary, received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He edited a book of essays on St. Francis of Assissi and three translations of studies of St. Francis.

Course Number 018
6 lectures, approximately 1 hour each

  1. Bibliography, Introductory Information
  2. The Prelude -- Causes of the Reformation
    Catholic Attempts at Reform to 1537
  3. The Council of Trent
  4. The Counter-Reformation Popes
    The New Religious Orders
  5. Saints & Foundresses
    France, the Field of Battle
  6. Thirty Years' War and Peace of Westphalia


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