As a response to several Protestants, the Roman Catholic Church started what we call the Catholic Reformation or Counter Reformation. They had to reform some of their own rigid doctrines to respond to the reforms of the Protestants. As a result of the Protestant Reformation, Catholicism defends the following beliefs and practices: the importance of good works, the value of tradition, a guided interpretation of the Bible, hierarchical authority, veneration of Mary and the saints, and the seven Sacrament.