In effect, the counter reformation and council of trent squashed all hopes that the protestants and catholics would reconcile

No, it is false that the Counter Reformation and Council of Trent squashed all hopes that the Protestants and Catholics would reconcile, since in the modern world the two groups operate side by side with little difficulty. 

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

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