What I feel is that Hanks meant that men and women alike should be involved in the fight against the Protestants. When he says it must be a masculine affair I feel that he is saying the more men that are involved the better things could become in certain aspects. I agree with his description of the Counter-Reformation, because his perspective is interesting in the way that he explains what he feels. Furthermore, I believe that during this time and day masculine affairs were basically everything if men were not involved in certain affairs during this time there was not much attention to certain
