In the seventeeth century what was the catholic church's reaction to the renaissance humanism rationality and independence?

At the time the Church was a religion, a government, a culture, a society, the head scientific instution, and represented the bulk of the literate individuals (before the printing press).

So for all those aspects to change it took a long time. Like most things the Church, because of its size and many parts changes very slowly. As frustrating as this is, it is also a strengh for the chuch. Originally the Church resisted the innovations of the time, but slowly (as the culture it was linked to evolved) adopted and promoted these movements/values.