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The Jesuit Order, Or an Infallible Pope i : THE JESUIT ORDER, OR An Infallible Pope, who "being dead, yet speaketlf about the Jesuits, BY REV. J. J. ROY, B.A., Rector of St. George's Church, Winnipeg, to Father Drummond of the Jesuit Order, at St. Boniface Coeeege, Manitoba. acasTTEirsrTS- (1) Rev. J. J. Roy's Sermon of March 10th, 1889, (verbatim). (2) Father Drummond's letter to the Free Press of February 26, 1889. (3) The Brief of Pope Clement XIV., "Dominus ac Redemptor Noster," published July 21st, 1773, suppressing the Jesuit Order in perpetuity. (4) An article by Professor Bertolini, from an article in the Nuova Ontologia of Rome, Italy, Nov. 1 886, on Clement XIV. and the Suppression of the Jesuits. " (5) An array of facts from the pen of a learned professor that may irritate dis- honest foes." (6) A list of wholesome books about the Society of Jesus. (7) Resolutions and Petition to the Governor-General-in-Council re Jesuits' Estate Act. FOR SALE AT EVERY BOOK STORE. PRICE 15 CENTS. — '' Winnipeg Sun, March 11, 1889 : Si. George's Church was packed to the doors, windows and ante-rooms, last night by an eager audience, to hear the Rev. J. J. Boy preach a sermon on the Jesuit question, and before the hour at which service begins crowds were turned away, unable even to secure a place to listen in the porches. The sermon was a very interesting and deep refutation of Father Drummond's letter to the Free Press, with iihe Pope's t>rief." — THE JESUIT ORDER, OR An Infallible Pope, who " being dead, speaketh" about the Jesuits. A REPLY Sir,—I have no intention to make a long de- fence of the Order of Jesuits to which I belong. By the Rev. J. J. Roy, B.A., Rector of St- For my friends who have read history aright, no is George's Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba such defence needed ; for my foes that are hon- est, study would dispel their ignorance for dis- to Father Drummond, of the Jesuit ; 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- ilies famous for their loyalty. We work for our CONTENTS : country's best interests with no earthly reward, but 1. Sermon by Rev. J. J. Roy, 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 Drummond's letter to the " Free lenging any one to prove that the Jesuit Order has Press" of Feb. 26th, 188!). ever favored disloyalty to any legitimate govern- 3. The Brief of Clement XIV.: « Dominus ment. ac Redemptor Noster," published July "Our Order was re-established (not re-created) after partial This order is doing 21st, 1773, suppressing the Jesuit Or- a suppression. very 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 and consign the Pope to eternal flames." Nuova Anto- ; logia of Rome, Italy, Nov., 1886. Lewis Drummond, S. J. St. Boniface, . 25th. 5. An Array of facts about the Jesuits, Feb j from the pen of a learned Professor, The 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 must 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 controversy with the Pope himself. SERMON THE POPE. The Jesuit has thrown the gauntlet, let Preached by the Rev. J. J. Roy, B.A., in the Pope pick it up, and we ignorant, pro- St. George's Church, Winnipeg, on testant libellers take the position of passive Sunday evening, March 10th, 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 11:4, and reads thus: the Society of Jesus. " An Infallible Pope, who, though "being This remarkable document opens by cit- dead yet speaketh" about the Jesuits. ing a long series of precedents for the sup- I will endeavor, brethren, to keep closely pression of religious orders by the Holy to my text—but, so as to avoid litigation See. It then sketches briefly the objects and libel suits, I will use as few words as and history of the Jesuits themselves. It possible of my own, and speak in the Ian- 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 caused by their " In the Free Press," of Winnipeg, Feb. quarrels with local bishops and the other 26th, 1889, I have seen many things about religious orders; 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 church which they 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 research, whereby we might thorough- then that the 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 We have ascertained that it had been Pope declares it should be suppressed, ex- established by its sainted founder for the tinguished, abolished, and abrogated 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 reception of any more to attain this desired result more easily bishops ; forbids the 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 option 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 licenses to hear confessions. might be diverted from them nor appropri- Such of the fathers as are engaged in the ated for the advantage, the utility or the work of education are permitted to con- 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 III., 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 to 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 obliga- menced to exist, he had restricted its num- tion. (See Encyclopaedia JBritannica, Vol. ber to sixty members, still, by another bull XTIX, under Act Jesuit, by Rev. R. F. issued February 28th, 154,3, he permitted Littledale, L.L.D. The E. B. is on the the Superiors to admit into it all persons curriculum of the Manitoba University of whose reception might seem to them useful which Father Drummond is a shining and 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 Society, 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 permission should be tique et litteraire de la Compagnie de extended without any restriction and with- Jesus, Paris, Jacques Lecoffre, 1859).
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