The correct answers were A) The Church established guidelines for educating priests and D) The pope encouraged the faithful to become monks and nuns and devote their lives to caring for the sick and helping the poor.
The statements that accurately described the Catholic Church's response to the Reformation were the following: The Church established guidelines for educating priests and the pope encouraged the faithful to become monks and nuns and devote their lives to caring for the sick and helping the poor.
Catholic Church had to react to the Reformation movement and launched was is known as the "Counter-Reformation." It started in 1545 with the Council of Trent. Catholic Church wanted to maintain the presence and dominion it had before the Reformation. It expulsed Protestants and presented new documents for ecclesiastical reconfiguration, confiscated Protestant land, and started heresy trials.