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Chapter 48“ . . . and while they amused the public with games, they spent their owntime planning the murder of their defenseless subjects, whose only crimewas that they loved God better than the Pope, and that they worshippedChrist and looked to Him alone for salvation, instead of to the Church andthe Virgin.” {2} [Emphasis added]M. F. Cusack, 1896Converted Nun of KenmareThe Black Pope“How long shall the Roman Catholic Hierarchy play the people for fools?Shall the government be of the people, for the people, and by the people, orby the pope? Let’s not let the pope of Rome name our President for us.Lovers of your country, beware of Jesuitical intrigues, the political powerof Romanism, and the honeyed words of politicians reaching after thepresidency!” {3} [Emphasis added]Jeremiah J. Crowley, 1912Ex-Irish PriestRomanism: A Menace to the Nation“The power of the Society of Jesus in the Catholic Church is beyond doubtenormous. It is said, apparently with truth, that the Jesuit General, the“Black Pope” as he is called, can make and unmake bishops and evencardinals. He has various agents and representatives within the walls of theVatican, and he can gain the ear of the Pope whenever he wishes. . . . Againand again the Society has been able to oppose successfully the plans andwishes of Popes. . . . the Society which is perennial at Rome is able to blockthe efforts of passing Popes [like Pope John Paul I who sought toprematurely establish diplomatic relations with Israel prior to the end ofthe Company’s Cold War]. . . . The Order is to the Church what the Churchis to the world. The Order is a kind of parasite sucking the vital power ofthe Church. . . . It holds the confidence and consciences of so many bishops,cardinals, and prelates; . . . in fine, [it] works in so many ways on thefunctionaries of the Church, that it has become as it were an inner circle inthe Church. It has made the Pope more and more like its own autocraticGeneral; and has reduced the bishops more and more to the status ofProvincials in the Society who are officials nominated by and controlled bythe General, without any inherent authority. An interesting proof of Jesuitprestige and power in this country is the existence, in the shadow of theCapitol, at Washington, of the Jesuit School for Foreign Service [whichThe Jesuits – 1964 - 2000