Dermot Fenlon , Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Cambridge. examines the issues arising out of Jean Delumeau 's Le catholicisme enire Luther et Voltaire, which has recently been translated. He assesses the recent thinking of Catholic historians about the changes which overtook the Catholic Church in the centuries after the Protestant Reformation. and challenges Delumeau's striking attempts to re-interpret the Catholic Counter-Reformation.