The Reformation was a response to problems in the Catholic Church. The English Reformation was different from the German Reformation because The English Reformation was more of a rebuilding of the tradition. The German Reformation was more of a demolition. Instead of trying to keep to their tradition, the Germans realized the whole system was corrupt and they threw it out the window, forging their own beliefs.
Meanwhile, the Catholics were already trying to fix their own problems, partially with a new zeal for the religious over the political or bureaucratic. The Jesuit Order brought us St. Francis Xavier’s missionary work. In a famous letter, he wrote that he lived for nearly four months in a Christian village, occupied in translating the Catechism. "A great number of natives came from all parts to entreat me to take the trouble to go to their houses and call on God by the bedsides of their sick relatives. Such numbers also of sick made their own way to us, that I had enough to do to read a Gospel over each of them."
You get the impression from the Jesuit’s Spiritual Exercises that The Jesuit Order liked their rules and did their best to please God with the knowledge they had. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order, was concerned about careless discussion of faith and good works because God says not to boast or brag. Then what you do isn't for God's glory, it's for your own glory. The Bible says that this is not rewarded by God.ave a religion, so she went with whichever religion most suited the nobility.
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