JESUITS - "the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery"
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Hmm, a circle, a Witches/Warlocks Coven circle. On the Spirituality page there is a section called "Finding God in all things", which is actually Pantheism, and even Panentheism, when it states, "... The spiritual path laid out by Ignatius helps us discern God's presence, to find God in all things ..." - Finding God in All Things | The Society of Jesus
1. God cannot be found in sin, neither in the sinner.
2. God is actually in a specific place, 3rd Heaven, thus the prayer, "Our Father which art in Heaven ...", not "Our Father, which art everywhere ..."
3. God is not a perfume, but a Person.
4. God is not in the rock, tree, sky, etc., as that is pantheism and elsewhere in a certain other aspect, panentheism. God is omnipresent through His omniscience as the Psalms 139 declares.
5. The "spiritual path" as "laid out by Ignatius" is another "path", another "way" than Jesus Christ (John 14:6; Psalms 77:13).
6. The Bible helps us discern, not "Ignatius".
2. God is actually in a specific place, 3rd Heaven, thus the prayer, "Our Father which art in Heaven ...", not "Our Father, which art everywhere ..."
3. God is not a perfume, but a Person.
4. God is not in the rock, tree, sky, etc., as that is pantheism and elsewhere in a certain other aspect, panentheism. God is omnipresent through His omniscience as the Psalms 139 declares.
5. The "spiritual path" as "laid out by Ignatius" is another "path", another "way" than Jesus Christ (John 14:6; Psalms 77:13).
6. The Bible helps us discern, not "Ignatius".
"... Cardinal Contarini now came forward to advocate the suit of Loyola, and prevailed on the pope to issue the Bull, [Regimini militantis Ecclesiae, 27th Sept. 1540.] for the establishment of Jesuitism. Contarini was the professed opponent of Augustine on the doctrine of Grace. He was the intimate friend of Ignatius, and succeeded in imbuing both his companions with his particular sentiments. Accordingly when Lainez and Salmeron appeared, as Popish deputies, at the Council of Trent, they were charged with leaning to Pelagian opinions -- Nay it has been said, a cry of indignation was expressed --- "Away with those Pelagians." +
Amongst those who uttered this indignant exclamation, was the celebrated Michael Baius, ++ who may be justly termed the predecessor of Jansenius. This learned Dominican was professor of Divinity, at Louvaine, and had been elected deputy to attend the Council, by the king of Spain. He was a zealous papist, and had risen to the high office of Inquisitor-general. But though bigotted in his attachment to Popery, he remained stedfast to the principles of Augustine, and felt a strong aversion to scholastic theology. Amongst all his errors, he maintained the doctrine of justification by faith, the fallen condition of man, and the insufficiency of [page 156-157]
... + "Chassez ces Pelagiens." Hist. Jes. Vol. 4. p. 93. Salmeron was also accused of heterodoxy, respecting the oblation of Christ in the Lord's Supper. Father Paul, p. 518. London, 1676. ++ Note I.
good works to merit pardon and salvation. The Franciscans and the Jesuits made a common cause against him. -- But he defended himself, under the authority of the Bishop of Hippo, and when Pius V. and Gregory XIII. condemned certain propositions drawn from his writings, many zealous papists considered him unjustly treated, and denounced their edicts, as devoid of all authority. * ...
* Whoever wishes to study the charges of the Romish church against the Jesuits, on their doctrinal heresies respecting Grace and Justification, should read the "Historia Congregationum de Auxiliis," Le Blanc. Lovanii, 1700. It will amply repay the Theological student who desires to become master of this important controversy, on which the present argument so mainly depends. ..." - The Jesuits: an historical sketch by Edward William Grinfield (1853), pages 156-157 - The Jesuits: an historical sketch
Amongst those who uttered this indignant exclamation, was the celebrated Michael Baius, ++ who may be justly termed the predecessor of Jansenius. This learned Dominican was professor of Divinity, at Louvaine, and had been elected deputy to attend the Council, by the king of Spain. He was a zealous papist, and had risen to the high office of Inquisitor-general. But though bigotted in his attachment to Popery, he remained stedfast to the principles of Augustine, and felt a strong aversion to scholastic theology. Amongst all his errors, he maintained the doctrine of justification by faith, the fallen condition of man, and the insufficiency of [page 156-157]
... + "Chassez ces Pelagiens." Hist. Jes. Vol. 4. p. 93. Salmeron was also accused of heterodoxy, respecting the oblation of Christ in the Lord's Supper. Father Paul, p. 518. London, 1676. ++ Note I.
good works to merit pardon and salvation. The Franciscans and the Jesuits made a common cause against him. -- But he defended himself, under the authority of the Bishop of Hippo, and when Pius V. and Gregory XIII. condemned certain propositions drawn from his writings, many zealous papists considered him unjustly treated, and denounced their edicts, as devoid of all authority. * ...
* Whoever wishes to study the charges of the Romish church against the Jesuits, on their doctrinal heresies respecting Grace and Justification, should read the "Historia Congregationum de Auxiliis," Le Blanc. Lovanii, 1700. It will amply repay the Theological student who desires to become master of this important controversy, on which the present argument so mainly depends. ..." - The Jesuits: an historical sketch by Edward William Grinfield (1853), pages 156-157 - The Jesuits: an historical sketch
The book mentioned under the authorship of Le Blanc, is as follows (by 'Father' Serry, under the pseudonym of Auguste Leblanc):
Historia Congregationum de Auxiliis,
Historia Congregationum De Auxiliis Divinae Gratiae0
See also:
"... What was the origin of that order? It may be stated in a few words. In the year 1534, on August 16th, an ex-officer and "Knight of the Virgin," from the Biscayan Provinces, and the proprietor of the magnificent castle of Casa Solar -- Ignatius Loyola, § became the hero of the following incident. In the subterranean chapel of the Church of Montmartre, surrounded by a few priests and students of theology, he received their pledges to devote their whole lives to the spreading of Roman Catholicism by every and all means, whether good or foul; and [page 266-267] he was thus enabled to establish a new Order. Loyola proposed to his six chief companions that their Order should be a militant one, in order to fight for the interests of the Holy seat of Roman Catholicism. Two means were adopted to make the object answer; the education of the youth, and proselytism (apostolat). This was during the reign of Pope Paul III., who gave his full sympathy to the new scheme. Hence in 1540 was published the famous papal bull -- Regimini militantis Ecclesiae (the regiment of the warring, or militant Church) -- after which the Order began increasing rapidly in numbers and power.
At the death of Loyola, the society counted more than one thousand Jesuits, though admission into the ranks was, as alleged, surrounded with extraordinary difficulties. It was another celebrated and unprecedented bull, issued by Pope Julius the III. in 1552, that brought the Order of Jesus to such eminence and helped it towards such rapid increase; for it placed the society outside and beyond the jurisdiction of local ecclesiastical authority, granted the Order its own laws, and permitted it to recognise but one supreme authority --- that of its General, whose residence was then at Rome. The results of such an arrangement proved fatal to the Secular Church. High prelates and Cardinals had very often to tremble before a simple subordinate of the Society of Jesus. Its generals always got the upper hand in Rome, and enjoyed the unlimited confidence of the Popes, who thus frequently became tools in the hands of the order. Naturally enough, in those days when political power was one of the rights of the "Vice-gerants of God" -- the strength of the crafty society became simply tremendous. In the name of the Popes, the Jesuits thus granted to themselves unheard-of privileges, which they enjoyed unstintedly ..." - Lucifer - A Theosophical Magazine, by H. P. Blavatsky and Mabel Collins, Volume 2, pages 266-267 - Lucifer
At the death of Loyola, the society counted more than one thousand Jesuits, though admission into the ranks was, as alleged, surrounded with extraordinary difficulties. It was another celebrated and unprecedented bull, issued by Pope Julius the III. in 1552, that brought the Order of Jesus to such eminence and helped it towards such rapid increase; for it placed the society outside and beyond the jurisdiction of local ecclesiastical authority, granted the Order its own laws, and permitted it to recognise but one supreme authority --- that of its General, whose residence was then at Rome. The results of such an arrangement proved fatal to the Secular Church. High prelates and Cardinals had very often to tremble before a simple subordinate of the Society of Jesus. Its generals always got the upper hand in Rome, and enjoyed the unlimited confidence of the Popes, who thus frequently became tools in the hands of the order. Naturally enough, in those days when political power was one of the rights of the "Vice-gerants of God" -- the strength of the crafty society became simply tremendous. In the name of the Popes, the Jesuits thus granted to themselves unheard-of privileges, which they enjoyed unstintedly ..." - Lucifer - A Theosophical Magazine, by H. P. Blavatsky and Mabel Collins, Volume 2, pages 266-267 - Lucifer
You will notice -- quietthinker -- that in the Bible evildoers got their just desserts without any equivocation. Unlike what happens today. What happened to Jezebel should have already happened to Pelosi, and what happened to Herod when he failed to refuse a fraudulent position should have happened to Biden. But God may yet intervene and both Biden and Harris may come under divine retribution either before or after January 20. Instead of inauguration it could turn out to be internment. And the Jesuits could preside.
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Oh yes, we mustn't forget the Canadian Jesuits (especially Jesuit owned Quebec):
"... In 1635, Brebeuf declined to accompany Huron ambassadors to the Five Nations Iroquois to confirm the peace then being negotiated. The nominal reasons he gave for his refusal were unconvincing. He said he could not leave the Huron because "Gospel Law" was not yet established among them, and that he "would not go to any place where we would not be immediately recognized as Preachers of Jesus Christ" (JR 8:117). William N. Fenton (1940: 227) has suggested his real reason was probably "because a Huron-Iroquois peace would ruin the Quebec trade interests if the trade from the Upper Lakes were diverted to Fort Orange." Brebeuf not only prevented peace but advocated for an international war to his Superior in order to drive "The Dutch ... entirely out of these territories. Because they are heretics ... the Iroquois themselves ought to be crushed by force of arms. May God grant this favour." For this, one of his biographers described Brebeuf as evidencing [page 187-188] "vindictiveness one would hardly expect from such a saintly man" (Donnelly 1875:209, part citing Latourelle 1953: 107-114). This may have been the Brebeuf the Huron knew, and explain why disaffected Huron later guided Iroquois warriors to Huronia, and intently tortured, with intensity, Brebeuf and his companion Father Gabriel Lalemane to death (JR 34: 141,145). Father Jean de Brebeuf indeed died a martyr (JR 34: 139), not for religion but for the fur trade. ..." - Petun to Wyandot: The Ontario Petun from the Sixteenth Century, by Charles Garrad, pages 187-188 - Petun to Wyandot
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Yes, Paul VI Nervi Hall is the Head of the Serpent (google image search it), didn't you see the fangs (pillars), between which the 'pope' sits directly and spews venom (hate speech, calling fundamentalism terrorism) and poisonous doctrine (Eucharist, Mass (Murder), etc)?
I've seen the pictures before and know there are all sorts of pagan idolatry depicted.
Jesuits can sin, without penalty, by an order of a superior or in virtue of holy obedience, as is expedient, or for the 'greater good' (Ad majorem dei gloriam):
"... no constitutions, declarations, or regime of living can oblige under mortal or venial sin, unless the superior orders the subjects in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ or in virtue of holy obedience, c which may be done in regard to things and persons where it is judged to be highly expedient for the particular good of each one or for the universal good. ..." - The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, page 266 (Part VI, Chapter 5, The Constitutions do not oblige under pain of sin.) - The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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A complete History of the Popes of Rome ... Vol. I, by Louis-Marie de Lahaye viacomte de Cormenin
"... [page 894, right-hand column] From this period, the history of the congregation of Jesus is but a registry of a long train of disasters; already expelled from China and Portugal, the good fathers found themselves arrested in one day throughout all Spain, by order of Charles the Third, and conducted to different sea ports and sent to Italy.
France did not long delay in imitating the example of Spain, and drove beyond the mountains, the cohorts of Jesuits who infested the provinces. The king of the Two Sicilies also drove them from his dominions. Don Ferdinand, the duke of Parma and Placenza, infant of Spain, followed the political impulse of his family, and extirpated them from his domains. The soil of Italy was polluted by this unclean slime which the nations had rejected, and which they had sent back to Rome, the fountain of all corruption. The pope was soon alarmed by the prodigious number of Jesuits which fell upon the patrimony of St. Peter ... [page 894 right-hand column ... page 895 right-hand column]
... But the impulse was given, and his tardy submission could not prevent the progress of the reform. The Catholic powers continued to trace out, definitely, the line of demarcation between the spiritual and the temporal power, and made it a condition of peace that the pope should suppress the institution of the Jesuits. Clement, too weak to resist the princes of the house of Bourbon, determined, finally, to sacrifice the satellites of the papacy, and announced that he would pronounce the abolition of the society in a public consistory. This imprudent declaration was the cause of his death; the good fathers were on their guard, and on the night preceding the day appointed for this solemn act of justice, the holy father was seized with strange pains, and expired in convulsions at four o'clock on the morning of the 2d of February, 1769. The Jesuits had poisoned him. ..." - A complete History of the Popes of Rome ... Vol. I, by Louis-Marie de Lahaye viacomte de Cormenin, pages 894-895, selected sections - https://ia601400.us.archive.org/7/items/book-history-louis-marie-de-cormenin-a-complete-history-of-the-popes/Book - History - Louis Marie De Cormenin - A Complete History Of The Popes.pdf
"... [page 897, right-hand column] Clement the Fourteeneth continued his minute inquiry, regardless of the threats or obstacles of every kind which he met on his way. He had, however, judged it prudent to take certain precautions to avoid the terrible fate of his predecessor. Thus he had replaced the cook of the Quirinal palace by a good monk, named Francis, who, from devotion to him, had consented to serve as his cook and prepare the dishes destined for his table.
Nothing could intimidate the virtuous Ganganelli, and when, after four years of close inquiries, he found himself sufficiently enlightened concerning the crimes of the congregation, he launched the celebrated bull "Dominus ac Redemptor." The decree which abolished the society was thus framed, :Inspired by the Holy Spirit, urged on by the duty of bringing back concord into the bosom of the church, convinced that the congregation of the Jesuits can no longer render the services for which our predecessor, Paul the Third, instituted them, induced, moreover, by other motives which morality commands us to confine in our own soul, by virtue of our sovereign authority in religious matters, we abolish and for ever destroy the Society of Jesus, its functions, its houses, and its institutions." In signing this bull, Clement said with a sigh, "I sign my death warrant, but I obey my conscience."
This sentence was immediately notified to the professed house, and the other colleges, by the deputies of the commission of inquiry. To prevent all rebellion, his holiness arrested the general of the order, Laurenzo Ricci, his assistant, the secretary general, Fathers Faure, Forestier, and Guatier, who were conducted to the castle of San Angelo. From that time Clement redoubled his precautions to free himself from the vengeance of his enemies, and renewed his recommendations to the good Franciscan to watch the kitchen --"Fra Francisco," he said to him, "cadate a la pignata,"--"Brother Francis, watch the pot." The active prudence of the good monk did not disconcert the Jesuits, it only rendered them more ingenious. The following was the infernal trick they employed to attain their ends. A lady of the Sabine, entirely devoted to them, had a tree in her garden which bore the handsomest figs in Rome. The reverend fathers, knowing that the pope loved this fruit very much, induced the lady to disguise herself as [page 897 right-hand column to page 898 left-hand column] a peasant and go and present these figs to Brother Francis. The devotee did so several times, gained the confidence of the Franciscan, and once day slipped into the basket a fig larger than the others, into which a subtle poison, called aquetta, was injected. Up to this time the holy father had enjoyed perfect health; he was well made, though of the ordinary height; his voice was sonorous and strong; he walked with the activity of a young man, and everything presaged a long old age to him.
From that day his health failed in an extraordinary manner; it was remarked with alarm, that his voice was sensibly failing. To those first symptoms of his sickness was joined so violent an inflammation of his throat that he was obliged to keep his mouth constantly open; vomiting then succeeded the inflammation, accompanied by pains in his bowels; finally, the sickness increasing in intensity, he discovered that he was poisoned. He wished to make use of antidotes, but it was too late, the evil was beyond remedy, and he had only to wait the close of his [left-hand column to right-hand column] life. For the three months that he endured this terrible agony, his courage never failed him for a moment; one day only, after a more violent crisis than all the others, he said, "Alas, I knew well that they would poison me, but I did not expect to die in so slow and cruel a manner." He became, if we may so speak, the shadow of himself; his flesh was eaten out by the corrosive action of the aquetta, his very bones were attacked and became softened, contorting his members and giving them a hideous form; at last, God took pity on the poor victim of the execrable Jesuits, and recalled him to himself, on the 22d of September, 1774, at seven and a half o'clock in the morning. An authentic piece, the despatch of the embassador of Spain, relates in its fullest details, the examination of the dead body, which was made the day succeeding his death, and adds to the irrefutable proofs of the poisoning of the pontiff and the guilt of the Jesuits.
Thus were realised the threats of the Jesuits, and their sinister predictions were accomplished! ..." - A complete History of the Popes of Rome ... Vol. I, by Louis-Marie de Lahaye viacomte de Cormenin, pages 897-898 - https://ia601400.us.archive.org/7/items/book-history-louis-marie-de-cormenin-a-complete-history-of-the-popes/Book - History - Louis Marie De Cormenin - A Complete History Of The Popes.pdf
France did not long delay in imitating the example of Spain, and drove beyond the mountains, the cohorts of Jesuits who infested the provinces. The king of the Two Sicilies also drove them from his dominions. Don Ferdinand, the duke of Parma and Placenza, infant of Spain, followed the political impulse of his family, and extirpated them from his domains. The soil of Italy was polluted by this unclean slime which the nations had rejected, and which they had sent back to Rome, the fountain of all corruption. The pope was soon alarmed by the prodigious number of Jesuits which fell upon the patrimony of St. Peter ... [page 894 right-hand column ... page 895 right-hand column]
... But the impulse was given, and his tardy submission could not prevent the progress of the reform. The Catholic powers continued to trace out, definitely, the line of demarcation between the spiritual and the temporal power, and made it a condition of peace that the pope should suppress the institution of the Jesuits. Clement, too weak to resist the princes of the house of Bourbon, determined, finally, to sacrifice the satellites of the papacy, and announced that he would pronounce the abolition of the society in a public consistory. This imprudent declaration was the cause of his death; the good fathers were on their guard, and on the night preceding the day appointed for this solemn act of justice, the holy father was seized with strange pains, and expired in convulsions at four o'clock on the morning of the 2d of February, 1769. The Jesuits had poisoned him. ..." - A complete History of the Popes of Rome ... Vol. I, by Louis-Marie de Lahaye viacomte de Cormenin, pages 894-895, selected sections - https://ia601400.us.archive.org/7/items/book-history-louis-marie-de-cormenin-a-complete-history-of-the-popes/Book - History - Louis Marie De Cormenin - A Complete History Of The Popes.pdf
"... [page 897, right-hand column] Clement the Fourteeneth continued his minute inquiry, regardless of the threats or obstacles of every kind which he met on his way. He had, however, judged it prudent to take certain precautions to avoid the terrible fate of his predecessor. Thus he had replaced the cook of the Quirinal palace by a good monk, named Francis, who, from devotion to him, had consented to serve as his cook and prepare the dishes destined for his table.
Nothing could intimidate the virtuous Ganganelli, and when, after four years of close inquiries, he found himself sufficiently enlightened concerning the crimes of the congregation, he launched the celebrated bull "Dominus ac Redemptor." The decree which abolished the society was thus framed, :Inspired by the Holy Spirit, urged on by the duty of bringing back concord into the bosom of the church, convinced that the congregation of the Jesuits can no longer render the services for which our predecessor, Paul the Third, instituted them, induced, moreover, by other motives which morality commands us to confine in our own soul, by virtue of our sovereign authority in religious matters, we abolish and for ever destroy the Society of Jesus, its functions, its houses, and its institutions." In signing this bull, Clement said with a sigh, "I sign my death warrant, but I obey my conscience."
This sentence was immediately notified to the professed house, and the other colleges, by the deputies of the commission of inquiry. To prevent all rebellion, his holiness arrested the general of the order, Laurenzo Ricci, his assistant, the secretary general, Fathers Faure, Forestier, and Guatier, who were conducted to the castle of San Angelo. From that time Clement redoubled his precautions to free himself from the vengeance of his enemies, and renewed his recommendations to the good Franciscan to watch the kitchen --"Fra Francisco," he said to him, "cadate a la pignata,"--"Brother Francis, watch the pot." The active prudence of the good monk did not disconcert the Jesuits, it only rendered them more ingenious. The following was the infernal trick they employed to attain their ends. A lady of the Sabine, entirely devoted to them, had a tree in her garden which bore the handsomest figs in Rome. The reverend fathers, knowing that the pope loved this fruit very much, induced the lady to disguise herself as [page 897 right-hand column to page 898 left-hand column] a peasant and go and present these figs to Brother Francis. The devotee did so several times, gained the confidence of the Franciscan, and once day slipped into the basket a fig larger than the others, into which a subtle poison, called aquetta, was injected. Up to this time the holy father had enjoyed perfect health; he was well made, though of the ordinary height; his voice was sonorous and strong; he walked with the activity of a young man, and everything presaged a long old age to him.
From that day his health failed in an extraordinary manner; it was remarked with alarm, that his voice was sensibly failing. To those first symptoms of his sickness was joined so violent an inflammation of his throat that he was obliged to keep his mouth constantly open; vomiting then succeeded the inflammation, accompanied by pains in his bowels; finally, the sickness increasing in intensity, he discovered that he was poisoned. He wished to make use of antidotes, but it was too late, the evil was beyond remedy, and he had only to wait the close of his [left-hand column to right-hand column] life. For the three months that he endured this terrible agony, his courage never failed him for a moment; one day only, after a more violent crisis than all the others, he said, "Alas, I knew well that they would poison me, but I did not expect to die in so slow and cruel a manner." He became, if we may so speak, the shadow of himself; his flesh was eaten out by the corrosive action of the aquetta, his very bones were attacked and became softened, contorting his members and giving them a hideous form; at last, God took pity on the poor victim of the execrable Jesuits, and recalled him to himself, on the 22d of September, 1774, at seven and a half o'clock in the morning. An authentic piece, the despatch of the embassador of Spain, relates in its fullest details, the examination of the dead body, which was made the day succeeding his death, and adds to the irrefutable proofs of the poisoning of the pontiff and the guilt of the Jesuits.
Thus were realised the threats of the Jesuits, and their sinister predictions were accomplished! ..." - A complete History of the Popes of Rome ... Vol. I, by Louis-Marie de Lahaye viacomte de Cormenin, pages 897-898 - https://ia601400.us.archive.org/7/items/book-history-louis-marie-de-cormenin-a-complete-history-of-the-popes/Book - History - Louis Marie De Cormenin - A Complete History Of The Popes.pdf
The bright colours and bold text some people insist of using have the opposite of the intended result and just put me off reading their posts. And I know there are others that feel the same.
Switch to "Reader View" (ie Windows 7, Mozilla "F9") if using a modern web browser (Chrome, etc all support this feature). It automatically eliminates the colours so that your personal preferences do not distract from my thread, thank you. The colours will remain identifying the Great Whore of Revelation 17 and their Babylonian "Whine".
I have no idea what that means or how to do it. If people want to put others off reading their posts then let them.
Richard Wigginton Thompson - Ex-Secretary of the United States Navy - Richard W. Thompson - Wikipedia
"... In his conflict with the Italian people for the re-possession of temporal power, by overthrowing the Constitutional Government they have established, the pope could not find another ally so formidable as the Jesuits, nor one with such implacable hatred of liberalism and popular government. Their society is so united and compact that its ranks can not be broken. They are everywhere the same, moved by a common impulse, under the dictation of their general in Rome. They are the deadly enemies of civil and religious liberty. Nothing that stands in their way can become so sacred as to escape their vengeance. Protestantism has borne no fruits to which they have ever been reconciled. They consider the Reformation which gave birth to it to have been criminal resistance to the only rightful authority upon earth -- that which proceeds from Church and State combined. They believe that the condition of mankind during the Middle Ages, staggering under the weight of feudal oppression, was preferable to modern progress and enlightenment; that human happiness would be promoted by the return to that period; that the political right of self-government by the people can not be set up against the higher right of papal and monarchial power; that the progress of the advancing nations is delusive and unsubstantial; and that institutions which guarantee civil and religious freedom, if not arrested by some coercive power strong enough to put an end to them, will lead, through heresy, to social ruin and desolation. If, at the period of the Reformation, this society had not been [page 28-29] established for the express purpose of counteracting its influence, a knowledge of the difference between primitive Christianity and the prevailing dogmas might have led to such reforms as would have reconciled Christians to dwell together in peace and concord. But when a dove should have been sent forth bearing the olive-branch of Christian charity, this society sprang from the brain of a disappointed military adventurer, and began at once to scatter the seeds of strife and discord. Almost from the beginning it has been a disturber of the peace of nations, suffering only such as have bestowed patronage upon it to escape its maledictions and its plottings.
The members of this society are numerous and powerful in the United States. They are constantly increasing, mainly by accessions from their drilled and disciplined companions in Europe, but also by conversions of unsuspecting young men, who are seduced by their vain and supercilious pretensions as educators. They are, as they have always been, selfish and vindictive -- restless under opposition, and compromising in nothing. They have neither country, nor homes, nor families, nor friendships beyond the limits of their order -- none of the affections of the heart which give charm to life and social intercourse -- being required to abandon all these and fit themselves for uninquiring obedience to their general, whose commands, whether right or wrong, good or bad, they have solemnly vowed to execute, without the least regard for consequences. Having persistently refused to become reconciled to the forms and methods of Christian civilization which prevail among our Protestant population, they employ all the resources they can command in endeavoring to arrest them. They insist that Church and State shall be united wheresoever they are separate, and that the basis of such union shall be the subordination of the State to the Church. Self-government by the people is held by them to be violative of the divine law, and on that account may rightly be resisted as heretical, when its overthrow can be assured. They will allow no rights to exist in either States, peoples, or individuals, against what they consider the prerogatives of their so- [page 29-30] ciety as defined by their general, who, in their estimation, possesses the divine right to enlarge or contract them at his own pleasure. There must be no limitation to the power and independence of the pope, either in the spiritual or temporal domain, except where the interests of their society command otherwise; they must be full, absolute, unquestioned, to the extent defined by himself. His liberty must be such that he may, at his own discretion, curtail the liberties of all others. His spiritual sovereignty must include whatsoever he shall embrace within it. Neither the existence nor the extent of this sovereignty must be brought in question before any human tribunal; but he alone shall define it, together with the character of the obedience he shall exact. And if, in the course of the papal economy, he should ever find it necessary to hold in one hand emblems of harmony and peace, this restless and uncompromising society stands always ready to place the rod of chastisement in the other.
The conflict of opinions, therefore, in which the Protestant people of the United States find themselves engaged is not of their own inviting. They are unwilling parties to it. It had its origin in the spirit of aggression which prevails among those who have stronger sympathy for an alien power than for the right of self-government, and, on account of their peculiar fitness for the work, it will engage every Jesuit tongue and pen in the land. Because of this, a sense of both duty and security demands that the history and character of this skilled and powerful adversary -- alien in birth, growth, and sentiment --- should be understood; as also the causes which have led to the expulsion of the Jesuits from every country in Europe, the public odium which has rested upon them for many years, their long-continued disturbance of the peace of nations, and the final suppression and abolition of their society ..." - The Footprint of the Jesuits, by Richard Wigginton Thompson (Ex-Secretary of the Navy, and Author of "The Papacy and the Civil Power"), pages 28-30 - The Footprints of the Jesuits
The members of this society are numerous and powerful in the United States. They are constantly increasing, mainly by accessions from their drilled and disciplined companions in Europe, but also by conversions of unsuspecting young men, who are seduced by their vain and supercilious pretensions as educators. They are, as they have always been, selfish and vindictive -- restless under opposition, and compromising in nothing. They have neither country, nor homes, nor families, nor friendships beyond the limits of their order -- none of the affections of the heart which give charm to life and social intercourse -- being required to abandon all these and fit themselves for uninquiring obedience to their general, whose commands, whether right or wrong, good or bad, they have solemnly vowed to execute, without the least regard for consequences. Having persistently refused to become reconciled to the forms and methods of Christian civilization which prevail among our Protestant population, they employ all the resources they can command in endeavoring to arrest them. They insist that Church and State shall be united wheresoever they are separate, and that the basis of such union shall be the subordination of the State to the Church. Self-government by the people is held by them to be violative of the divine law, and on that account may rightly be resisted as heretical, when its overthrow can be assured. They will allow no rights to exist in either States, peoples, or individuals, against what they consider the prerogatives of their so- [page 29-30] ciety as defined by their general, who, in their estimation, possesses the divine right to enlarge or contract them at his own pleasure. There must be no limitation to the power and independence of the pope, either in the spiritual or temporal domain, except where the interests of their society command otherwise; they must be full, absolute, unquestioned, to the extent defined by himself. His liberty must be such that he may, at his own discretion, curtail the liberties of all others. His spiritual sovereignty must include whatsoever he shall embrace within it. Neither the existence nor the extent of this sovereignty must be brought in question before any human tribunal; but he alone shall define it, together with the character of the obedience he shall exact. And if, in the course of the papal economy, he should ever find it necessary to hold in one hand emblems of harmony and peace, this restless and uncompromising society stands always ready to place the rod of chastisement in the other.
The conflict of opinions, therefore, in which the Protestant people of the United States find themselves engaged is not of their own inviting. They are unwilling parties to it. It had its origin in the spirit of aggression which prevails among those who have stronger sympathy for an alien power than for the right of self-government, and, on account of their peculiar fitness for the work, it will engage every Jesuit tongue and pen in the land. Because of this, a sense of both duty and security demands that the history and character of this skilled and powerful adversary -- alien in birth, growth, and sentiment --- should be understood; as also the causes which have led to the expulsion of the Jesuits from every country in Europe, the public odium which has rested upon them for many years, their long-continued disturbance of the peace of nations, and the final suppression and abolition of their society ..." - The Footprint of the Jesuits, by Richard Wigginton Thompson (Ex-Secretary of the Navy, and Author of "The Papacy and the Civil Power"), pages 28-30 - The Footprints of the Jesuits
Thomas Mealey Harris (U.S. Army Brigadier General)
"... And now we come to the last desperate conspiracy to overthrow our government, and make the rebellion a success by a resort to the favorite policy of the Jesuits, that of assassination. ..." - Rome's responsibility for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Thomas Mealey Harris (U.S. Army Brigadier General), 1817-1906, page 34 - Rome's responsibility for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln : Harris, Thomas Mealey, 1817-1906 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
"... And now we come to the last desperate conspiracy to overthrow our government, and make the rebellion a success by a resort to the favorite policy of the Jesuits, that of assassination. ..." - Rome's responsibility for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Thomas Mealey Harris (U.S. Army Brigadier General), 1817-1906, page 34 - Rome's responsibility for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln : Harris, Thomas Mealey, 1817-1906 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
You see, a person will never understand this America* (* SJ - America Magazine ):
... until they understand this, the Bonnet Rouge of the French Revolution and the power (SJ) behind both:
You see, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, and a heart knowing the times, and understanding what we ought to do, it is plain before all, even mockingly so. If you think that history cannot repeat, you have never understood the scriptures, Ecclesiastes 1:9, 3:15, &c.
... until they understand this, the Bonnet Rouge of the French Revolution and the power (SJ) behind both:
You see, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, and a heart knowing the times, and understanding what we ought to do, it is plain before all, even mockingly so. If you think that history cannot repeat, you have never understood the scriptures, Ecclesiastes 1:9, 3:15, &c.
Attachments
"... Yes, we repeat it; the nation cannot avoid the most dreadful calamities--from this fatal and corrupt society, unless prompt and vigorous measures can be taken to deliver it from the impending curse.
The society of Jesus is the enemy of man. The whole human race should unite for its overthrow. Earth and heaven should rejoice together over its tomb. -- For there is no alternative between its total extirpation, and the absolute corruption and degradation of mankind. ..." - Papism in the XIX. Century, in the United States: Being, Select Contributions to the Papal Controversy, During 1835-40. By Robert J. Breckinridge. (sub quote: "We do not look upon the Popish sect as a religion, but rather as a hierarchical tyranny, under a cloak of religion, clothed with the spoils of the civil power, which it has usurped, contrary to our Saviour's own doctrine." -- JOHN MILTON's Def. pro. Pop. Ang. Proef.), Baltimore: David Owen & Son, 2 1/2, N. Gay Street. MDCCCXLI (1841); page 207. - Papism in the XIX. Century, in the United States
The society of Jesus is the enemy of man. The whole human race should unite for its overthrow. Earth and heaven should rejoice together over its tomb. -- For there is no alternative between its total extirpation, and the absolute corruption and degradation of mankind. ..." - Papism in the XIX. Century, in the United States: Being, Select Contributions to the Papal Controversy, During 1835-40. By Robert J. Breckinridge. (sub quote: "We do not look upon the Popish sect as a religion, but rather as a hierarchical tyranny, under a cloak of religion, clothed with the spoils of the civil power, which it has usurped, contrary to our Saviour's own doctrine." -- JOHN MILTON's Def. pro. Pop. Ang. Proef.), Baltimore: David Owen & Son, 2 1/2, N. Gay Street. MDCCCXLI (1841); page 207. - Papism in the XIX. Century, in the United States
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- Abuse in the United States
Main article: Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States
Diocese of Chicago
Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago
Internal church records released in 2013 indicate that the Jesuits of the Archdiocese of Chicago willfully concealed sex crimes committed by Jesuit priest Donald McGuire for more than four decades. A letter written in 1970 by John Reinke, the president of Loyola Academy where McGuire worked, admitted that McGuire's presence at Loyola was "positively destructive and corrosive," but suggested transferring him to Loyola University instead of sending him to treatment or turning him over to the legal system.[1] McGuire was finally tried for his crimes and found guilty of molesting two teenage students in Wisconsin in 2006.[2] McGuire was sentenced to seven years in prison for this, and was later tried and found guilty for another act of abuse in 2009. This time, he was sentenced to 25 years, making it likely that he would die in prison.[3] McGuire later died in a federal prison in 2017.[4]
Lawsuit
Robert Goldberg, one of McGuire's victims who was instrumental in his conviction,[4] filed a lawsuit against both the Midwest Jesuit Province and the main Society of Jesus office in Rome in 2019.[4]
Diocese of Fairbanks
Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic diocese of Fairbanks
In February 2008, the diocese of Fairbanks announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming inability to pay the 140 plaintiffs who filed claims against the diocese for alleged sexual abuse by priests or church workers dating from the 1950s to the early 1980s. The Society of Jesus, Oregon Province, was named as a co-defendant in the case, and settled for $50 million.[5] The Diocese, which reports an operating budget of approximately $6 million, claims one of the diocese's insurance carriers failed to "participate meaningfully".[6][7][8][9]
Diocese of Portland
Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in Portland archdiocese
The lawsuits in the Fairbanks diocese have also affected the Jesuit community in the diocese of Portland, given that the Western Province of the American Jesuits is located in the State of Oregon.[10][11] In February 2009, the Province of Oregon became the first Jesuit order to file for bankruptcy.[12] In March 2011, the Oregon Jesuit Province agreed to pay nearly 500 victims of sex abuse $166.1 million[13] As party of the bankruptcy agreement, the Oregon Jesuit Province also disclosed the list of Jesuit clergy who were accused of committing sex abuse.[14]
Diocese of Boston
Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in Boston archdiocese
In 2002, criminal charges were brought against five Roman Catholic priests in the Boston area of the United States, John Geoghan, Paul Desilets,[15] Paul Shanley, Robert V. Gale and Jesuit priest James Talbot, which ultimately resulted in the conviction and sentencing of each to prison.[16]
Diocese of St Petersburg
In 1985, Jesuit priest Norman J. Rogge plead guilty to sexually abusing a boy in 1984 and received a one-year prison sentence.[17] He previously plead guilty to another charge of sex abuse against a minor in 1967 and received a sentence of three years probation and forced psychiatric therapy[17]
Diocese of New Orleans
By 2019, sex abuse lawsuits which were filed against at least two former Jesuits who were accused of committing sex abuse at Jesuit high schools were settled.[17]
Cheverus High School
Main article: Cheverus High School
In 1998, nine male alumni claimed that they had been molested while attending the Jesuit school Cheverus. Two former faculty members, Jesuit priest and teacher James Talbot and teacher and coach Charles Malia,[18] were accused. The school, located in Portland, Maine, confirmed the abuse and apologized to the victims. The victims also accused both Cheverus High School and the Portland Diocese of hiding information, and that they had previously known about the abuse. Settlements to victims have reached a cumulative seven figures, with ongoing counseling additional. Talbot, who was the former chair of the English Department, and Malia, the former head of the Track Team, have admitted they are guilty. Both teachers lost their jobs at Cheverus in 1998.[18] Before public accusations surfaced that he committed sex abuse at Boston College High School, James Talbot had been accused of molesting a student at Cheverus. [19] On September 24, 2018, Talbot pled guilty to the sex abuse charges in Maine and immediately began serving two concurrent three-year prison sentences.[20][21] ..."
List of Accused Clergy in Northeast United States
- On January 15, 2018, the USA Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus released a list Tuesday of 50 priests under its jurisdiction who have been "credibly accused" of sexual misconduct with minors[22] The list includes priests who served in Jesuit high schools and colleges throughout New England, New York and northern New Jersey.[22] However, the list only includes ordained Jesuits and does not include some accused people who were affiliated with the Jesuits.[22] Seven on the list taught at Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine.[22] All but 15 of the Roman Catholic priests on the list are dead, and all of the alleged abuse took place before 1997.[22]
List of Accused Clergy in Central and Southern United States
On December 7, 2018, the USA Central and Southern Province of the Society of Jesus released a list of 42 priests under its jurisdiction who had allegations of sex abuse.[23][24][25] The list also includes those from predecessor organizations such as the New Orleans Province, the Missouri Province, and the Independent Region of Puerto Rico of the Society of Jesus.[23][24][25] Those with credible allegations are either deceased or no longer in active ministry,[23][24] while 4 who had less credible allegations are still active in the province.[23][24]
List of Accused Clergy in Western United States
On December 7, 2018, the USA West Province released a list of Jesuit clergy who were accused of committing sex abuse while working for areas in the province.[14] Reports of abuse are dated as early as 1950,[14] While the Province of the present-day was formed in 2017.[14] the list includes reported abuse in the former California and the former Oregon Provinces, against whom a credible claim of sexual abuse of a minor (under the age of 18) or a vulnerable adult has been made.[14] The former Oregon Province was also required to release the list of accused clergy as party of its bankruptcy settlement.[14]
List of Accused Clergy in Midwest United States
On December 17, 2018, the USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus released a list of Jesuits who had accused of molesting children while working for areas in the province.[26] Listed reports of abuse go as early as 1955.[27] The present-day Province was formed in 2017 as a merger between the Chicago, Chicago-Detroit, Detroit, and Wisconsin provinces.[26]
List of Accused Clergy in Maryland Province
On December 17, 2018, The USA Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus released the names of Jesuits who had accused of molesting children while working for the Province.[28][29][30][31] The list goes as far back as 1950 at earliest.[32] The Province stretches from the state of Georgia to the areas just below the state of New York .[33]
Abuse in Germany
Main article: Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Europe § Germany
Canisius-Kolleg Berlin
Main article: Canisius-Kolleg Berlin
In 2004 and 2005 two former students of the school told the headmaster of this Jesuit school that they had been sexually abused by two of their former teachers. In December 2009 and January 2010 two other boys contacted the headmaster and claimed the same about the same teachers. The headmaster decided to write a letter to all former students in which he stated that he was deeply sorry for what happened. After receiving the letter several others of the former students contacted the headmaster and said that they too had been abused. In January 2010, the headmaster wrote a personal letter of apology to all pupils at the school.[34]
The names of the former students claiming to be sexually abused have been withheld from the public, but the public was told that many of them were notable scientists or held political or economic positions of power. It was also revealed that some of the alumni who had been abused decided to send their children to the Canisius-Kolleg.[35] One of the teachers has spoken out and said the allegations made against him were true, because he really had abused boys. The teachers might not be sued for what they did, because it seems that in most cases the statute of limitations has passed, but the abused boys wanted them to apologize.[36] Apologies and financial compensations were issued to the victims.[37]
An investigative report detailing allegations of substantial abuse was released in 2010.[38] ..."
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