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144 Vatican AssassinsPAUSE IThe Jesuits – 1540 - 1773 JesuitAscendancy and PowerDear truth-seeker, in light of the previous seven chapters we must pause andreflect on the power of the Jesuit Order. Historian John Clark Ridpath writes:“The Society of Jesus was thenceforth recognized as the chief opposingforce of Protestantism. The Order became dominant in determining theplans and policy of the Romish Church. The brotherhood grew andflourished. It planted its chapters first in France, Italy and Spain, and thenin all civilized lands. The success of the Order was phenomenal. Itbecame a power in the world. It sent out its representatives to everyquarter of the globe. Its solitary apostles were seen shadowing the thronesof Europe. They sought, by every means known to human ingenuity, toestablish and confirm the tottering fabric of Rome, and to undermine therising fabric of Protestantism. They penetrated to the Indus and theGanges. They traversed the deserts of Thibet, and said, “Here am I,” inthe streets of Peking. They looked down into the silver mines of Peru, andknelt in prayer on the shore of Lake Superior. To know all secrets, fathomall designs, penetrate all intrigues, prevail in all counsels, rise above alldiplomacy, and master the human race, – such was their purpose andambition. They wound about human society in every part of the habitableearth, the noiseless creepers of their evergrowing plot to retake the worldfor the Church, and to subdue and conquer and extinguish the lastremnant of opposition to her dominion from shore to shore, from therivers to the ends of the earth.” {1} [Emphasis added]Having gained control of a nation’s political leaders, the Order then enforcedits power over the people with its “Holy” Office of the Inquisition. We read:“The Jesuits reckon it among the glories of their order, that Loyolasupported, by a special memorial to the Pope [Paul III (1534-1549)], apetition for . . . reviving the infamous tribunal of the [Roman] Inquisition[with a Bull on April 1, 1542] . . . This terrible tribunal, in the hands ofthe relentless and unforgiving Caraffa [Gian Pietro Cardinal Caraffa orCarafa, later Pope Paul IV (1559-1565)], spread desolation and dismaythroughout Italy, from its very commencement . . . death assumed a new