
Counter-Reformation by Adolphus Ward
The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, and remembered for its infamous Inquisition, was the period of Catholic resurgence which was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation...
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Show overview
Counter-Reformation by Adolphus Ward launched in 2025 and has put out 24 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 6 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 15 min and 18 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.
There hasn’t been a new episode in the last ninety days; the most recent episode landed 4 months ago. The busiest year was 2025, with 22 episodes published. Published by Loyal Books.
From the publisher
The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, and remembered for its infamous Inquisition, was the period of Catholic resurgence which was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation. Adolphus Ward writes, that it was "a movement pursuing two objects...the regeneration of the Church of Rome, and the recovery of the losses inflicted upon her by the early successes of Protestantism...The onset of the combat is marked by the formal establishment of the Jesuit Order as a militant agency devoted alike to both of the purposes of the Counter-Reformation, and the meeting of the Council of Trent [1545-1563] under conditions excluding from its programme the task of conciliation." It largely ended in 1648, when the Peace of Westphalia brought an end to the Thirty Years' War.
Latest Episodes
View all 24 episodesCh. 1: Introductory, Pt. 1
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Ch. 1: Introductory, Pt. 2
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Ch. 2: The Beginnings of the Catholic Revival, Pt. 1
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Ch. 2: The Beginnings of the Catholic Revival, Pt. 2
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Ch. 2: The Beginnings of the Catholic Revival, Pt. 3
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Ch. 2: The Beginnings of the Catholic Revival, Pt. 4
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Ch. 2: The Beginnings of the Catholic Revival, Pt. 5
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Ch. 3: The Council of Trent, Pt. 1
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Ch. 3: The Council of Trent, Pt. 2
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Ch. 3: The Council of Trent, Pt. 3
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Ch. 3: The Council of Trent, Pt. 4
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Ch. 3: The Council of Trent, Pt. 5
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Ch. 4: The Counter-Reformation at Its Height, Pt. 1
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Ch. 4: The Counter-Reformation at Its Height, Pt. 2
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Ch. 4: The Counter-Reformation at Its Height, Pt. 3
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Ch. 4: The Counter-Reformation at Its Height, Pt. 4
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Ch. 4: The Counter-Reformation at Its Height, Pt. 5
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Ch. 4: The Counter-Reformation at Its Height, Pt. 6
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Ch. 5: The Religious Conflict Merged in the Great War, Pt. 1
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Ch. 5: The Religious Conflict Merged in the Great War, Pt. 2
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