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the JESUIT 'ORDER, OR an Infallible Pope, Who . THE JESUIT 'ORDER, OR An Infallible Pope, who "being dead, speaketh" about the Jesuits. 1_' A REPLY SIR,-I have no intention to make a long de­ fence of the Order of Jesuits to which I belolJg. By the Rev. J. J. Roy, B.A., Rector of St· , For my friends who have read history aright, no George's Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba such defence is needed; for my foes that are hon­ to Father Drummond, of the Jesuit est, study would dispel their ignorance; for dis­ honest foes an array of facts would only irritate Order at St. Boniface College, Man­ them. *"*" *" *" *" *" * *" *" 'We are the . itoba. sons of well-known Canadians, sprung from fam­ CONTENTS: ilies famous for their loyalty. We work for our country's best interests with no earthly reward, but 1. Sermon by Rev. J. J. Ray, March 10th, our food and raiment. Our whole lives are de­ 1889. voted to religion, and religion is the best bulwark of loyalty. We are, therefore, justified in chal­ 2. Father Druinmond's letter to the "Free lenging anyone to prove that the Jesuit Order has '. Press" of Feb. 26th, 1889. ever favored disloyalty to any legitimate govern­ 3. The Brief of Clement XIV.: "Dominus ment. ac Redemptor N oster/' published July "Our Order was re-established (not re-created) after a partial suppression. This , order is doing 21st, 1773, suppressing theJesuit Or­ ve:.:y much earnest work in teaching and preaching. der in perpetuity. It is not, above all, a useless secret society whose 4. An Article-by Professor Bertolini­ only purpose is to brag and bluster about loyalty, From an article in the Nuova Anto­ and consign the Pope to eternal flames." logia of Rome, Italy, Nov., 1886. LEWIS DRUMMOND, S. J. 5. An Array of facts about the Jesuits, ST. BONIFACE, Feb. 25th. ' from the pen of a learned Professor, Tlie Jesuit has thrown the gauntlet, we , that may "irritate dishonest foes." pick it up and accept the challenge. But 6. A list of wholesome books on the So­ so as to avoid litigation and libel suits, ciety .of Jesuits. and keep close to the text" we nlUst speak 7. Resolutions and Petition to Governor­ the language of "Infallibility." None but General-in-Council, re Jesuits' Estates Popes are infallibles. SO' we must let the Act. Jesuits settle the controverRY with the - Pope himself. THE POPE. SERMON The Jesuit has thrown the gauntlet, let Preached by the Rev. J. J. Roy, RA., in the Pope, pick 'it up, and we ignorant, pro­ St. George's Church, Wipnipeg, <:m testant libellers take the position of passive Sunday evening, March lOth, being spectators! the first Sunday in Lent, 1889. SUMMARY OF THE PAPAL BRIEF. THE TEXT. On July 21, 1773, appeared the famous My beloved -brethren, my text is taken brief of Pope Clement XIV., suppressing in part from Hebrews 12:4, and reads thus: the Society of Jesus. , "An Infallible Pope, who, though "being This remarkable document opens by cit­ dead yet sp'eaketh" about the Jesuits. ing a long. series of precedents for the sup­ I will endeavJr, brethren, to keep closely pression of religious orders by the Holy to my text-but, so l}S to avoid litigation See. It then sketches briefly the objects and libel suits, I will use as -few words as and history of the Je:mits themselves. It possible of my own, and speak in the lan­ speaks of their defiance of their own con­ .guage of infallible authority. stitution, expressly revived by Paul v., forbidding them to meddle in politics; of FATHER DRUMMOND. the great ruin to souls ca,used by their In the "Free Press," of Winnipeg, Feb. quarrels with local bishops and the otber 26th, 1889, I have seen mlwy things about religious or,ders; their conformity to the Jesuits, but I quote the following only, heathen usages in the East, and the dis­ as the rest does not bear on the text. turbances resulting in persecutions of the r ! t(G ) 2 church which tb-ey had stirred up even in resolution, which we will' explain further Catholic countries, so that several Popes on, we have spared no trouble nor omitted had been obliged to punish them. Seeing any reseai'ch, whereby we might thorough­ then thatthe Catholic sovereigns had been ly acquaint ourselves with everything that forced to expel them, that many bishops concerned the origin, the progress, and the and other eminent persons demanded their actual state of the religious order common­ extinction, and that the Society had ceased , ly known as the Society of Jesus. to fulfil the intention of its institute, the I We have ascertained that it had been , Pope declares it should be suppressed, ex- established by its sainted founder for the tinguished, abolished, and abrogatecl_ for salvation of souls, for the conversion of the ever, with all its rights, houses, colleges, heretics, and especially of the infidels, and schools, and hospitals; transfers all the au- for the furtherance of piety and religion. thority of its general or officers to the local We have also ascertained that in order bishops; forbids the reception of any more to attain this desired result more easily and novices" directing that such that were more successfully, the Society had been actually in probation should be ,dismissed, consecrated to God by the strictly binding and declaring that profession in the Society vow of evangelical poverty, both for the should not serve as a title to holy orders. community and the individual member, Priests of the Society are given the uption with the exception of the scholastic and , ofjoining other orders or remaining as secu- literary establishments, which were allowed lar clergy, under obedience to the bishops, to possess a small revenue, so arranged, who are empowered to grant or withold however, that no part of this said revenue from them 'licer.ses to hear confessions. might be diverted from them nor appl'opri­ Such ofthe fathers as · are engaged in the ated for the ad vantage, the utility or the work of education are permitted to oon- use of the said Society. tinue, on condition of abstaining from lax It was according to these and other and questionable doctrines, apt to Cause equally wise laws that Paul IlL, our prede­ strife and trouble. The question of mis- cessor, had originally given his approbation sions is reserved, and the relaxations to the Society of 'Jesus by his bull of Sept. granted to the Society in such matters as 27th, 1540, and had given t9 it permission fasting, reciting the' hours and reading to draw up statutes which would ensure its heretical books are withdrawn; while the tranquillity, its existence and its govern- , brief ends with clauses carefully drawn to ment. bar any legal exceptions that might be Although, when the Society com.- , taken against its full validity and otliga- menced to exist, he had restricted its num­ tion. (See Encycloptedia Britannica, Vol. bel' to sixty members, still, by another bull XIII., under Ac.t Jesuit, by Rev. R. F. issued February 28th, 154~, he permitted ' Littledale, , L.L.D. The E. B. is on the the SUI?eriors to admit into it all persons curriculum of the Manitoba University of whose reception might seem to them useful · which F~ther Drummond is a shining , arid necessary. , member, and where we sat together as co- Then the same Paul, our predecessor, by examiners in modern languages.) a brief dated November 15, 1549, granted very great privileges to this Soc~ety, and THE POPE HIMSELF SPEAKING. conferred upon its generals power to intro~ But, so far, you have heard, ' brethren, duce into it twenty priests as spiritual co­ only a summary of Clement's XIV. famous adjutors, and to invest them with the same brief "Dominus ac Redemptor Noster." privileges, favor and authority as the pro­ I will now quote this brief as given by fessed members of the Society. He willed Cretineau Joly Histoire, religieuse, poli­ and ordered that this permi~sion should be tique et littetaire de la Compagnie de extended without any restriction and with­ Jesus, Paris, Jacques Lecoffre, 1859). Cre­ out limitation of number to all persons tineau Joly is a friend and apologist of the considered worthy of it, by the generals. Jesuits. Further, the Society itself: all members of The brief as given, by Cretineau-Joly, it and all thei1' property were sntirely ex­ after being t.ranslated, reads as follows empt from all st&bjection to and jurisdic­ (what C.-J. omits does not refer to the Or­ tion and discipline of the bishops, and this der of Jesus) : Pope took them under his protection and under that of the Apostolic See. THE BRIEF "DOMINUS AC REDEMPTOR As time went on our predecessors acted NOSTER." with the same munificence and liberali£y "Guided by these and other precedents, of towards this Society. Indeed J ulius Ill., the utmost weight and of the highest Paul IV., Pius IV. and' v., Gregory XIII., authority, and ardently desiring to carry ISixtus V., Gregory XIV., Clement VIIL, into effect with assurance and decision the 'and other Sovereign Pontiffs either con- 3 firmed or augmented or determined more and the salutary project 'which he had de­ particularly the privileges previously vised vanished away and was not-carried granted to this religious community. into execution. Nevertheless, from the very tenor and Gregory XIV., of blessed memory, had wording of these Apostolic Constitutions, but ascended the Pontifical throne, when we learn that in the bosom of this Society, he gave anew, by his Dull of .June 28th, scarcely out of its cradle yet, various germs 1591, 1?-nqualified approval to the institu­ of discord and _jealousy had sprung up.
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