JESUITS - "the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery"

The Jesuits are a military prelature directly under the Pope, and the Jesuit Superior General, aka the 'Black' Pope, currently "Arturo Sosa", and the previous was Adolfo Nicolas, the previous being Peter Hans Kolvenbach, etc - Superior General of the Society of Jesus - Wikipedia

"The Society of Jesus is a religious order founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola. Designated by him "The Company of Jesus" to indicate its true leader and its soldier spirit, the title was Latinized into "Societas Jesu" in the Bull of Paul III approving its formation and the first formula of its Institute ("Regimini militantis ecclesia", 27 Sept., 1540).

... The name "Societas Jesu" had been born by a military order approved and recommended by Pius II in 1450 ...

... As the object of the society was the propagation and strengthening of the Catholic Faith everywhere, the Jesuits naturally endeavored to counteract the spread of Protestanism. They became the main instruments of the Counter-Reformation; the re-conquest of southern and western Germany and Austria for the Church, and the preservation of the Catholic faith in France and other countries were due chiefly to their exertions. ...

... The professed are all priests, who make, besides the three usual solemn vows of religion, a fourth, of special obedience to the pope in the matter of missions, undertaking to go wherever they are sent, without even requiring money for the journey. ..." - Roman Catholic Online Encyclopedia, section S, "the Society of Jesus" - CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Jesuits (The Society of Jesus)​

"... [the Jesuits are the] advance guard of the Church ..." - Roman Catholic Online Encyclopedia, section S, "the Society of Jesus" - CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Counter-Reformation

"“God’s Marines” called to serve ... The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as “God’s Marines” and as “The Company,” these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola’s military background ... " - About Our Jesuits - Ignatius House Retreat

"... They have sometimes been known as "God's soldiers," after being founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1534. ..." - Poverty And Chastity For Every Occasion

"... "Jesuits are called 'God's Marines' for a reason. They are the Special Forces of the Catholic Church." ..." [as quoted by an ex-marine, so when he says, "Special Forces", it means militarily.] - Arts and Sciences Magazine​

"... The Society of Jesus had been organized by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They have been characterized by Father Lucas as the "shock troops of the Counter-Reformation". ..." - http://75.103.82.40/pdf/Recreating-Chapel.pdf​

"... perinde ac cadaver, "like a corpse" ..." - Roman Catholic Online Encyclopedia, section S, Society of Jesus, History of the (Before 1773) - CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pre-1773 History of the Jesuits​

"... the renunciation of their will, and the abnegation of their judgment ..."

"...32. According to the Constitutions, “the entire purport of this fourth vow of obedience to the pope was and is with regard to missions… for having the members dispersed throughout the various parts of the world”.50 This is the matter of the vow. But the Constitutions also invite us to distinguish ourselves in obedience “not only in the matters of obligation but also in others even though nothing else be perceived except an indication of the superior’s will without an expressed command”.51 This is thoroughly congruent with Ignatius’s ideal of obedience, which holds “that obedience is imperfect in which there does not exist, in addition to the execution, agreement in willing and judging between him who commands and him who obeys”.52 ..." - http://www.sjweb.info/35/documents/Decrees.pdf

"... The thirteenth, finally, that we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be white. [Autograph, The thirteenth: that we may in all things attain the truth (that we may not err in anything), we ought ever to hold it (as a fixed principle), that what I see white, I believe to be black, if the Hierarchical Church so define it (to be);]] ..." - The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, [PDF page 229] page 180, translated from the Authorised Latin; with Extracts from the Literal Version and Notes of the Rev. Father Rothaan. Father-General of the Company of Jesus; by Charles Seager, M.A.: to which is prefixed A Preface by the Right Rev. Nicholas Wiseman, D.D., Bishop of Melipotamus, and Coadjutor of the Midland District of England. London: Charles Dolman, 61 New Bond-Street. MDCCCXLVII. (1847) - The spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola​

*"The sources for the suspicion that fell on Ignatius were many. ...[pg 85]

[pg 87] ...The suspicions of alumbradismo [Spanish Illuminati] that fell on Ignatius Loyola personally from the 1520's were extended over the years to the book of the Spiritual Exercises and eventually to the Society of Jesus itself. One of the most prominent and able early critics of what we now call Ignatian spirituality was the Dominican theologian, Melchor Cano. He was implacably hostile to the alumbrados and associated Ignatius with them. Between 1556 and 1558 Cano wrote a number of letters in which he affirmed that the Society was a heretical force whose Exercises were undermining Church and State. ... A document discovered in the British Library in 1977 and attributed to Cano is almost certainly the work in question. It is known by the first word of its title, the Censura.14

Suspicians of the Spiritual Exercises

It contains attacks on the Society of Jesus, on Ignatius, and on the Exercies. ..." [pg 87]

[pg 88] ...Nevertheless, Ignatius and the alumbrados did share certain common beliefs, and aspirations. ...

[pg 96] ...14 The full title reads: Censura y parecer contra el Instituto de los Padres Jesuitas. ..."​

"... Great dissentions and civil commotions between De Las Cases and Gourgard (the latter backed by Montholon) about the rooms. Both applied to Bonaparte in urgent term to get them, but Nap. very wisely settled it like Pope Leo, by taking them himself. Montholon can not conceal his joy at the failure of De Las Cases, and for the present is triumphant; 'but the Jesuit ever worketh underhand, speaketh little and mischievously, and at last will make his way like a mouse in a cheese.' 1

1 "Ma il Gesuito sempre travaglia travaglia sotto man, parla poco e male, ed alla fine riuscira come topo nel formaggio."" - History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena​

"...But there is a religious society, the tendency of which is highly dangerous, and which should never have been admitted into the territories of the empire -- viz., the Society of Jesus. Its doctrines are subversive of all monarchial principles. The General of the Jesuits desires to be sovereign master, the sovereign of sovereigns. Everywhere the Jesuits are tolerated, they strive for power, at any price. Their society is by nature fond of ruling, and nourishes, therefore, an irreconcilable hatred of all existing power. Any action, any crime, however atrocious it may be, is meritorious, if committed for the interest of the society, or by the orders of its General. …" - History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena​

"... It is curious to note too that most of the bodies which work these, such as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple, Fessler's Rite, the 'Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West -- Sovereign Prince Masons,' etc., etc., are nearly all the offspring of the sons of Ignatius Loyola. The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsay, Tschoudy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others who founded the grades in these rite, worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits. The nest where these high degree were hatched, and no Masonic rite is free from their baleful influence more or less, was the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris. ..." - Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key To The Mysteries Of Ancient And Modern Science And Theology by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Vol. II - Theology, page 390 - Theology​

"… cum finis est licitus, etiam media sunt licita." - Medulla Theologiae Moralis, by R. P. Hermanni Busenbaum, page 539 - Medulla theologiae moralis R. P. Hermanni Busembaum Societatis Jesu theologi; cum adnotationibus per reverendum patrem D. Alphonsum de Ligorio rectorem majorem Congregationis Sanctissimi Salvatoris ... accedunt in calce libri propositiones damnatae; necnon omnes epistolae encyclicae, et pontificia decreta mores spectantia SS. D. : Hermann Busenbaum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive​

"... REVELATION XII. … NOTES ... + The Jesuits, the most subtle and active of all the popish emissaries, were established, as a society, by Ignatius Loyola in the year 1534, soon after the Reformation, which was begun by Luther in the year 1517, and was carried into an open protest against the severe popish decrees at Spire in Germany, by several princes of the Empire in the year 1529, which was the original of the name Protestants, by which the reformed churches are called to this day: And how indefatigable numerous swarms of Jesuits have been in their endeavors to overthrow the Reformation; and what cruelties the Duke of Alva used in the Netherlands, and Queen Mary in England; and how the Council of Trent, the Parisian and Irish massacres, and numberless other efforts of popish princes have been spirited up to suppress and extirpate the Protestant religion, is so familiarly known, as are all the rest of the facts, ... with respect to the time of the Reformation, that it is quite needless to quote particular au- [Page 287-288] thorities, which may be seen in all the historians of those times; and are almost in every one's hands." [Page 287-288] - The practical expositor, or, An exposition of the New Testament, in the form of a paraphrase : with occasional notes... and serious recollections
The practical expositor, or, An exposition of the New Testament, in the form of a paraphrase : with occasional notes... and serious recollections​

"... And who are these agents? They are, for the most part, Jesuits, an ecclesiastical order proverbial through the world for cunning, duplicity, and total want of moral principle; an order so skilled in all the arts of deception, that even in Catholic countries, in Italy itself, it became intolerable, and required its suppression. They are Jesuits in the pay and employ of a despotic government, who are at work on the ignorance and passions of our com- [pg 60-61] -munity; they are foreigners, who have been schooled in foreign seminaries in the doctrine of passive obedience; they are foreigners under vows of perpetual celibacy, and having therefore, no deep and permanent interest in this country; they are foreigners, bound by the strong ties of pecuniary interest and ambition to the service of a foreign despot.* Is there no danger to to our free institutions from a host commanded by such men, whose numbers are constantly increasing by the machinations and funds of Austria?

Consider, too, the power which these Jesuits and other Catholic priests posses through the confessional, of knowing the private characters and affairs of all the leading men in the community; the power arising from their right to prescribe the kinds and degrees of penance, and the power arising from the right to refuse absolution to those who do not comply with their commands. ... And should not the men who possess such powers be jealously watched by all lovers of liberty?

Is it possible that these Jesuits can have a sincere attachment to the principles of free institutions? Do not these principles oppose a constant barrier to their exercise of that arbitrary power, which they claim as a divine right, and which they exercise, too, in all countries [pg 61-62] where they are dominant? Can in not be perceived, that although they may find it politic for the present to conceal their anti-republican tenets, yet this concealment will be merely temporary, and is only adopted now, the better to lull suspicion? Is it not in accordance with all experience of Popish policy, that Jesuits should encroach little by little, and persevere till they have attained the plentitude of power? At present they have but one aim in this country, which absorbs all others, and that is, to make themselves popular. If they succeed in this, we shall learn, when too late to remedy the evil, that Popery abandons none of its divine rights. The leaders of this sect are disciplined and organized, and have their adherents entirely subservient to their will. Here, then, is a regular party, a religious sect, ready to throw the weight of its power as circumstances may require -- ready to favor any man or set of men who will engage to favor it." - Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States

"...Surely American Protestants, freemen, have discernment enough to discover beneath them the cloven foot of this subtle foreign heresy, and will not wait for a more extensive, disastrous, and overwhelming political interference, ere they assume the attitude of watchfulness and defence. They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and [pg 94-95] despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack, under the sacred name of religion. They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the country. Popery imbodies in itself the CLOSEST UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Observe it at it the fountain-head. In the Roman States the civil and ecclesiastical offices are blended together in the same individual. The Pope is the King. ..." - Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States​

"The soldiers of Loyola are about to go forth. Before beginning the campaign we see their chief assembling them and pointing out the field on which their prowess is to be displayed. The nations of Christendom are in revolt: it will be theirs to subjugate them, and lay them once more, bound in chains, at the feet of the Papal See. They must not faint; the arms he has provided them with are amply sufficient for the arduous warfare on which he sends them. Clad in that armour, and wielding it as he has been at pains to instruct them, they will expel knowledge as night chases away the day; liberty will die wherever their foot treads; and in the ancient darkness they will be able to rear again the fallen throne of the great Hierarch of Rome. But if the service is hard, the wages will be ample. As the saviours of that throne they will be greater than it. And though meanwhile their work is to be done in great show of humility and poverty, the silver and the gold of Christendom will in the end be theirs; they will be the lords of its lands and palaces, the masters of the bodies and the souls of its inhabitants, and nothing of all that the heart can desire will be withholden from them if only they will obey him.

The Jesuits rapidly multiplied, and we are now to follow them in the peregrinations over Europe. Going forth in little bands, animated with an entire devotion to their General, schooled in all the arts which could help to further their mission, they planted themselves in a few years in all the countries of Christendom, and made their presence felt in the turning of the tide of Protestantism, which till then had been on the flow.

There was no disguise they could not assume, and therefore there was no place into which they could not penetrate. They could enter unheard the closet of the monarch, or the cabinet of the statesman. They could sit unseen in Convocation or General Assembly, and mingle unsuspected in the deliberations and debates. There was no tongue they could not speak, and no creed they could not profess, and thus there was no people among whom they might not sojourn, and no Church whose membership they [left column to right column] might not enter, and whose functions they might not discharge. They could execrate the Pope with the Lutheran, and swear the Solemn League with the Covenanter. They had their men of learning and eloquence for the halls of nobles and the courts of kings; their men of science and letters for the education of youth; their unpolished but ready orators to harangue the crowd; and their plain, unlettered monks, to visit the cottages of the peasantry and the workshops of the artisan. "I know these men," said Joseph II. of Austria, writing to Choiseul, the Prime Minister of Louis XV.-- "I know these men as well as any one can do: all the schemes they have carried on, and the pains they have taken to spread darkness over the earth, as well as their efforts to rule and embroil Europe from Cape Finisterre to Spitzbergen! In China they were mandarins; in France, academicians, courtiers, and confessors; in Spain and Portugal, grandees; and in Paraguay, kings. Had not my grand-uncle, Joseph I., become emperor, we had in all probability seen in Germany, too, a Malagrida or an Alvieros."

In order that they might be at liberty to visit what city and diocese they pleased, they were exempted from episcopal jurisdiction. They could come and go at their pleasure, and perform all their functions without having to render account to any one save to their superior. This arrangement was resisted at first by certain prelates; but it was universally conceded at last, and it greatly facilitated the wide and rapid diffusion of the Jesuit corps. ..." - The history of Protestantism​

"To Thomas Jefferson. Quincy, 6 May, 1816... [pg 216]

[pg 219]... I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. They have a general now in Russia, in correspondence with the Jesuits in the United States, who are more numerous than everybody knows. Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as ever a king of the gypsies, Bampfylde Moore Carew himself, assumed? In the shape of printers, editors, writers, schoolmasters, &c.? I have lately read Pascal's letters over again, and four volumes of the History of the Jesuits. If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyola. ..."

"To F. A. Vanderkemp. Philadelphia, 13 July, 1815. ... [pg 168]

... I have read D'Argen's Ocellus, Timaeus, and Julian. Instead of being sincere, he appears to me to be a consumate hypocrite, in the beginning, the middle, and the end; the most frank, candid, impudent, and sincere liar I ever read. It is plain that he believed neither the Old Testament nor New, neither Moses nor Jesus. He labors to destroy the credibility of the whole Bible, and all the evidence of a future state, and all this for the sake of establishing the infallibility of the Pope and the church, the necessity of forbidding the Bible to the people, and placing all religion in grace, and its offspring, faith. Among all the disciples of Loyola, I never read a more perfect Jesuit. He is a complete exemplification of Condorcet's "precious confessions," as you called them. You speak of his "superficial reflections." I have not found them. They are all deep, and aiming at the same end, a complete system of Antichristianity. ..." - The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States​