Can the Catholic Reformation be described as a triumph?

Not a triumph, because northern Germany and Scandinavia were permanently lost to the Church. Britain (except Ireland) was pretty well gone to Protestantism, and P'ism was also ascendant in the United Provinces, aka the Netherlands.

A victory because the expansion of Protestantism was largely halted. South Germany, Austria, Poland, France, Italy Spain and big sections of the Netherlands and large numbers of British stayed Catholic.

More important, the abuses which set the Protestant Reformation going were curbed. Sales of indulgences dropped. The licentiousness of the convents and monasteries was cleaned up. The Catholic clergy got reformed educationally. Most important, the Church developed their missionary ''shock troops'', the Jesuits -- learned men who could go toe-to-toe with Protestant divines in theological disputes, and were also the advance guard in carrying the, um, benefits of religion to the natives of the New World.

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Can the Catholic Reformation be described as a triumph?ducati

yes because the church was changed. any reformation has to be looked at what changed.
There was no such thing as a Catholic Reformation.

There was a Protestant Reformation; and a Catholic Counter-Reformation.

The Counter-Reformation was successful to some degree, in winning back into the folds of mother church, those who were on the fence so to speak.

But it in noway could be considered to have been a triumph.

Wotan