Answer:
The Church responded to the reformation with a Counter-Reformation. Pope Paull II called the Council of Trent and for the next 18 years, they had several meetings that then preceded to evolve into what we call modern Catholicism. Then from the Council of Trent came the Jesuits. Jesuits felt it was their responsibility to spread the teachings of Catholicism so they would go with explorers to spread their beliefs.
