Dr. James Hitchcock speaks about the Council of Trent and confronting the Reformation. The Reformation was one of the worst ruptures to threaten to Catholic Church. Whole populations were drifting from its embrace under the heretical opinions of an Augustinian monk. Until 1562, for some seventeen years on and off at the Council of Trent, the bishops of the Catholic Church fashioned the decrees that would act as the new breath of the Mystical Body of Christ.