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Vatican Assassins
“As I am treating of religious institutions, I must not pass over in silence
that celebrated order, which, from the first years of its existence, assumed
the stature of a colossus, and employed all a giant’s strength; that order
which perished without having felt decay: which did not follow the
common course of others, either in its foundation, in its development, or
even in its fall; that order of which it is truly and correctly said, that it had
neither infancy nor old age. It is clear that I speak of the Society of Jesus,
the Jesuits. . . . it is impossible to call to mind the religious institutions, the
religious, political, and literary history of Europe, during the last three
centuries without meeting the Jesuits at every step: we cannot travel in the
most distant countries, traverse unknown seas, visit the most remote lands,
or penetrate the most frightful deserts, without finding everywhere under
our feet some memorials of the Jesuits . . . When we study the history of the
Jesuits, this very extraordinary circumstance is apparent . . . there is no
religious order which has been the object of such keen animosity . . . Since
their reappearance [in 1814], men have constantly fixed their eyes upon
them; they tremble lest they should resume their ancient power [their
universal power wielded prior to their Papal Suppression and Extinction
in 1773]; Men do not despise the Jesuits, but fear them . . . It is immediately
seen that he who attacks does not believe himself opposed to insignificant
adversaries . . . it is clear that he takes the affair to heart, and does not look
upon it as a mere joke . . . we hear him say to himself,
‘Everything affecting the Jesuits is extremely grave; there is no playing
with these men — no regard, no indulgence, no moderation of any kind; it
is necessary always to treat them with rigor, harshness, and detestation;
with them, the least negligence may become fatal.’ ” {15} [Emphasis added]
Jaime Balmes, 1851
Spanish Priest and Philosopher
Protestantism and Catholicity
“Though the Order of the Jesuits, like all the Orders of the Romish
Church, was at first nominally subject to the authority of the Pope, they
secured, by a brief dated October 1836, that the Pope [Gregory XVI]
virtually resigned himself and the church to their control; consequently, it
being easier for them to manage one man than a multitude of independent
bishops, it was their policy to have infallibility lodged in one man, that
man being the Pope.” {16} [Emphasis added]
John McDonald, 1894
Scottish Reformed Pastor
Romanism Analyzed