Yet the counterreformation is upon us, and it may be time to give apostasy a try.

He was a Catholic priest and a strong supporter of counterreformation.

The Hungarian problem was further exacerbated by attempts to impose a counterreformation there.

"The Church was not happy with my studies of the Counterreformation and the Inquisition."

In his own lands, Ferdinand made sure that the Catholic counterreformation would prevail.

Then came the counterreformation.

As the counterreformation gathered force in Poland, pressure began to be used against the Socinians.

In the second half of the 16th century, however, Jesuits led a successful campaign of counterreformation among the Hungarians.

Following the Counterreformation, Jesuits moved in during 1615, followed by the return of the Franciscans in 1619.

But across town at the private La Jolla Country Day School, the sports counterreformation is in full swing.

However, the Thirty Years' War and other conflicts of the counterreformation damaged the city and ended the period of prosperity.

From 1576 onwards, he was governor in the Archduchy of Austria, where he promoted the counterreformation.

The traditionalists, who still dominate the scouting ranks, many front offices and the baseball media, have mounted a counterreformation this year with two books of their own.

At the same time the Evangelical Church supported printing Sorbian religious literature as a means of fighting the Counterreformation.

The religiosity of the monarch, the spirit of the Counterreformation and the customs of the time were part in the extraordinary importance that this genre reached.

Ferdinand, however, was a proponent of the Catholic counterreformation and not likely to be well-disposed to Protestantism or Bohemian freedoms.

Since the time of Counterreformation among the Habsburgs, Austria was an almost exclusively Roman Catholic country.

Elsewhere, the reticence of the sources on this subject is obviously due to the persecutions to which "sodomitical practices" were particularly subject during the Counterreformation.

The leader of the counterreformation here was Melchior Khlesl, Bishop of Vienna from 1600.

For this reason, the town was home to a flourishing and long-lived Jewish community, mostly made up by people fleeing from Rome during the Counterreformation persecutions.

Twice during the Thirty Years' War there were attempts at a counterreformation: from 1625 to 1629 and from 1636 to 1640, Hottenbach had a Catholic pastor.

The Reformation was introduced into Electoral Palatinate in 1557, but in 1626, many Protestant clergymen were driven out in the Counterreformation.

The Spanish domination was oppressive, adding its burden to the Counterreformation imposed by the archbishopric of Milan; Protestantism was prevented from making inroads in the area.

The Jesuits and counterreformation found a powerful protector in Báthory's successor, Sigismund III Vasa (1587-1632).