A Candid History of the Jesuits (Classic Reprint)

It is the historic custom of the Church of Rome to enlist in its service monastic or quasi-monastic bodies in addition to the ordinary clergy. In its hour of greatest need, at the very outbreak of the Reformation, the Society of Jesus was formed as one of these auxiliary regiments, and in the war which th Church of Rome has waged since that date the Jesuits have rendered the most spirited and conspicuous service. Yet the procedure of this Society has differed in many important respects from that of the other regiments of the Church, and a vast and unceasing controversy has gathered about it. It is probable that a thousand times, or several thousand times, more books and pamphlets and articles have been written about the Jesuits than about even the oldest and most powerful or learned of the monastic bodies. Not a work of history can be opened, in any language, byt:it.will contah; more references to the Jesuits than to the-other rdigibus orders collectively. But opinions diier2s im to-day as they did a hundred or two hundredjjceif Sjabout the character of the Jesuits, and the warmest eulogies are chilled by the most bitter and withering indictments. What is a Jesuit. The question is asked still in every civilised land, and the answer is a confusing mass of contradictions.
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