Throughout human history, things happen that cause changes. Change that incites movement, change that makes people rise up, change that lights a fire in the deepest part of the human soul. But as we all know, in any case there must be something that caused that cause. Many events have occurred throughout history that have shaped how we view our lives, but the impact that people during that time must have felt would have been enormous. There is a period in history that spurred many changes in our world and this is the period we know as the Catholic Counter-Reformation. This period of time prior to the Thirty Years' War was a direct effect of the Protestant Reformation and was a revival of a sort of Roman Catholicism and a huge reform movement from within the founding of the Church in Rome that spread throughout Europe. This impact will reverberate throughout the centuries, changing the course of the history of the Roman Catholic Church. As I have already said, for every effect there is a cause. The Catholic Reformation is no different from this fact. The almost direct cause of the Counter-Reformation was the Protestant Reformation which rapidly spread throughout Europe. This was mainly caused by a Catholic priest named Martin Luther. In 1517 he nailed down the “95 theses,” as they are called today. This writing highlighted the mistakes the Church had made in selling indulgences to pay for its sins and also to finance a huge construction project that the Roman Church was paying for. This priest didn't know the problems he would cause. He was simply looking for a change in the church, but this led to the Reformers, as they came to be known as, popping up all over Europe with different ideas and beliefs. Martin Luther continued to write his