What were the results brought by the Catholic Reformation?

Question

Anyone know? The only thing I can remember is the stuff about witchhunts ^_^;

Answer 1

-New religous orders : Capuchins, Jesuits
-End of indulgences
-end of absenteeism
-decrease in decadance of papacy
-bringing alot of the world back into the fold of Catholicsm that may have broken off during the Protestant reformation.
-toleration of lutherism w/ Peace of Augsburg in 1555
-possible start to the Scientific Revolution

Answer 2

Racism, homophobia, all those fun things. basically a lot of paranoia, modesty, and a lot of other things that have no place in our lives. or at least mine. sorry i didn't mean to be an a$$hole when answering your question but for me religion brings nothing but problems.

Answer 3

try some of these sites:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04437a.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12700b.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~lbachled/catholic_reformation.htm