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Chapter 48 643<br />

“ . . . and while they amused the public with games, they spent their own<br />

time planning the murder of their defenseless subjects, whose only crime<br />

was that they loved God better than the Pope, and that they worshipped<br />

Christ and looked to Him alone for salvation, instead of to the Church and<br />

the Virgin.” {2} [Emphasis added]<br />

M. F. Cusack, 1896<br />

Converted Nun of Kenmare<br />

The Black Pope<br />

“How long shall the Roman Catholic Hierarchy play the people for fools?<br />

Shall the government be of the people, for the people, and by the people, or<br />

by the pope? Let’s not let the pope of Rome name our President for us.<br />

Lovers of your country, beware of Jesuitical intrigues, the political power<br />

of Romanism, and the honeyed words of politicians reaching after the<br />

presidency!” {3} [Emphasis added]<br />

Jeremiah J. Crowley, 1912<br />

Ex-Irish Priest<br />

Romanism: A Menace to the Nation<br />

“The power of the Society of Jesus in the Catholic Church is beyond doubt<br />

enormous. It is said, apparently with truth, that the Jesuit General, the<br />

“Black Pope” as he is called, can make and unmake bishops and even<br />

cardinals. He has various agents and representatives within the walls of the<br />

<strong>Vatican</strong>, and he can gain the ear of the Pope whenever he wishes. . . . Again<br />

and again the Society has been able to oppose successfully the plans and<br />

wishes of Popes. . . . the Society which is perennial at Rome is able to block<br />

the efforts of passing Popes [like Pope John Paul I who sought to<br />

prematurely establish diplomatic relations with Israel prior to the end of<br />

the Company’s Cold War]. . . . The Order is to the Church what the Church<br />

is to the world. The Order is a kind of parasite sucking the vital power of<br />

the Church. . . . It holds the confidence and consciences of so many<br />

bishops, cardinals, and prelates; . . . in fine, [it] works in so many ways on<br />

the functionaries of the Church, that it has become as it were an inner circle<br />

in the Church. It has made the Pope more and more like its own autocratic<br />

General; and has reduced the bishops more and more to the status of<br />

Provincials in the Society who are officials nominated by and controlled by<br />

the General, without any inherent authority. An interesting proof of Jesuit<br />

prestige and power in this country is the existence, in the shadow of the<br />

Capitol, at Washington, of the Jesuit School for Foreign Service [which<br />

The Jesuits – 1964 - 2000

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