a wholesome effect

At the same time the Council [of Trent] abolished various crying abuses, and introduced wholesome disciplinary reforms, as regards the sale of indulgences, the education and morals of the clergy, the monastic orders, etc. Thus the Protestant Reformation, after all, had indirectly a wholesome effect upon the Church which condemned it.

Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom Volume 1: the History of Creeds, "The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent," p. 95