The Society of Jesus a Catholic Religious Order was founded in 1540 by Ignatious Loyola. Its members are known as the Jesuits or the sons of Loyola. They have for their end the spiritual perfection of the society. (They want people to think of the order in this way) In the beginning Ignatius used the Spanish term compania to express the soldier spirit of loyalty to the society. The name was Latinized by Ignatius into that of Societas. Pope Paul III, in 1540, ruled that the official title should be of Societas Jesu. The word "Jesuits" originating in the preceding century, was fixed on Ignatius's companions as a term of reproach and contempt. The Jesuits were created with the purpose of destroying the Protestant reformation and the restoration of catholic domination in Europe and the whole world.

The establishment of the society of Jesus as a religious order evolved in the mind of crazed Ignatius of Loyola. Born in 1491 in the ancestral castle in Guipuzcoa, Ignatius was early inducted into the career of the soldier. In 1521, campaigning for the defense of Navarre against the French, he was struck down by a cannon-ball at Pampeluna, his mind was never the same again. An important factor in the life of this individual was his early education with Fantasy Christian books that influence his life later. The period of inactivity that followed turned him from military pursuits to religious aspirations. The Spiritual Exercises germinated Ignatius to be the leader of the most dreadfull and feared society ever created by any individual. His first disoriented impulse was for labor in the Holy Land, whither he went in 1523. Visioning more clearly, however, he realized that education and companions were required to execute his plans to conquer the world for Catholicism. He devoted eleven years to study at Barcelona, Alcala, Salamanca, and finally at Paris. Through these student years, his relentless zeal often caused him to be persecuted and imprisoned, but he was always vindicated.
At Paris he attracted to himself six brilliant young university students: Peter Faber, a Savoyard; Francis Xavier, of Navarre;
James Laynez, Alphonsus Salmeron, Nicholas Bobadilla, Spaniards; and the Portuguese, Simon Rodriguez. In 1534 these seven bound themselves by vows to poverty, chastity. and to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Three others joined the brotherhood in 1536, namely, Claude LeJay, a Savoyard, and the Frenchmen, Jean Codure and Paschase Broet. Being prevented by the wars with and became the great religious conquistadors of modem times. Being prevented by the Turks from going to the Holy Land, the companions went to Rome in order to place themselves at the disposal of the Pope.
They were ordained priests, and consulted among themselves through months as to their future mode of life. Thus far, they followed no rule and were subject to no communal authority. Laynez and Salmeron were named Papal theologians They saw the necessity of obedience to an authority and of seeking means to perpetuate their brotherhood.

(Taken From the 1946 Britannica Encyclopedia)

Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by formidable foes. The first triumphs of the reformation past, Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At this time the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from earthly ties and human interest, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silence, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power. The gospel of the Savior had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endured suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired it followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy.

When appearing as members of their order, they wore a garb of sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering to the sick and the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the sacred name of the Savior, who went about doing good. But under the blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes were often concealed. IT WAS A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF THE ORDER THAT THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS. By this code, lying, theft, perjury, assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when they serve the interest of the church. Under various disguises the Jesuits worked their way into offices of state, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations. They became servants to act as spies upon their masters. They established colleges for the sons of princes and nobles, and schools for the common people; and the children of protestants parents were drawn into and observance of popish rites. All the outward pump and display of the romish worship was brought to bear to confuse the mind and dazzle and captivate the imagination, and thus the liberty for which the fathers had toiled and bled was betrayed by the sons. The Jesuits rapidly spread themselves over Europe, and wherever they went , there followed a revival of popery.

From the book "The Great Controversy" by Ellen G. White. page 234 & 235.

His first religious impulse was for labor in the Holy Land, where he went 1523. He soon realized the need of companions to embark in the work of conquering the WORLD for 'Jesus'. He spent 11 years studying at Barcelona, Alcala, Salamanca, and finally at Paris. At Paris he attracted to himself six brilliant young university students: Peter Faber, a Savoyard; Francis Xavier, of Navarre; James Laynez, Alphonsus Salmeron, Nicholas Bobadilla, Spaniards; and the Portuguese, Simon Rodriguez. In 1534 these seven bound themselves by vows to poverty, chastity, and to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This was the vow that created the ground for the Extrem oath of induction of the Jesuit Order.

INFILTRATION AND PENETRATION OF PROTESTANTS CHURCHES AND INSTITUTIONS WAS THEIR FIRST AIM, TO DESTROY THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION.

As a further item of interest we quote the following excerpts of this oath bound organization. It is only taken by the most trusted priest of the Jesuit Order, and has been charged as the one taken by the members of the Fourth Degree in the Knights of Columbus. (See Congressional Record, House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pages 3215-16.)

"I.........................................., now in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, and all the saints, sacred hosts of Heaven, and to you my ghostly Father, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus founded by St Ignatius of Loyola, in the pontification of Paul the Third, and continue to the present, do by the womb of the virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that his Holiness, The Pope; is Christ's Vice-regent, and is the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Savior, Jesus Christ, he hath the power to deposed heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealth, and government, ALL being ILLEGAL without his sacred confirmation, and that they may be safely destroyed.

"Therefore, to the utmost of my power, I shall and will defend this doctrine and his Holiness' right and customs against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority, whatever especially the Lutheran Church of Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the now pretended authority of the Church of England and Scotland, the branches of the same......etc, ....I do now renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state named Protestant or Liberal, or OBEDIENCE TO ANY OF THEIR LAWS , magistrates or officers. "I do further declare, that I will help and assist and advise all or any of his Holiness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant or Liberal doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, legal or otherwise. "I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical, for the propagation of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels, from time to as they may instruct me, and not to divulge directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or circumstances whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed given in charge or discovered unto me, by you my ghostly father... "I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver) but unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I amy receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ. "That I will go to any part of the world, whatsoever, without murmuring and will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me...I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor condition, and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their womens and crush their infants' heads against the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. "That when the same can not be done openly, I will SECRETLY USE THE POISON CUP, THE STRANGULATION CORD, THE STEEL OF THE PONIARD, OR THE LEADEN BULLET, REGARDLESS OF THE HONOR, RANK, DIGNITY OR AUTHORITY OF THE PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER MAY BE THEIR CONDITION IN LIFE, EITHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, AS I AT ANY TIME MAY BE DIRECTED SO TO DO BY ANY AGENT OF THE POPE OR SUPERIOR OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE HOLY FAITH OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "THERE IS A FACT WHICH IS TOO MUCH IGNORED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IT IS THAT THE BEST AND LEADING FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH HAVE RECEIVED THEIR EDUCATION IN GREAT PART IF NOT ALL FROM THE JESUITS AND THE NUNS -HENCE THE DEGRADING PRINCIPLES OF SLAVERY, PRIDE, CRUELTY..."This war would NEVER have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons...I pity the priests, the bishops, and the monks of Rome in the United States, when the people realize that they are, in great part, responsible for the tears and the blood shed in this war." Abraham Lincoln. 1863 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For There are certain men CREPT in UNAWARES, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of the Creator into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord the Father and our Lord Yahushua" JUDE verse 4.

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In the Latin nations the Jesuits strove to strengthen the Catholic Faith and to improve their standards. In the northern countries of Europe the Society struggled with advancing protestamtism. It became a leading factor in the Catholic Reaction, commonly known as the "Counter-Reformation." Forever St.
Ignatius, to his usual work, and specific design of opposing the Reformation when he founded his Society, the Jesuits were largely instrumental in conquering great sections of northern Europe to the Catholic Church and in regaining lost territory. In 1550, Protestamtism seemed on the verge of a sweeping triumph in Poland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Bavaria, and the Rhineland. That these sections of Europe, fifty years later, were finally and overwhelmingly Catholic was due largely to the Jesuits.

In Germany, Blessed Peter Faber was the founder of the Counter-Reformation, but his disciple, St. Peter Canisius, merits the title of "Apostle of Germany." Through preaching, both popular and academic, by disputations and catechisms, through countless tracts and books, the Jesuits defended the Catholic Faith among the German and Slavic peoples. Wherever possible, they established colleges for the education of the laity, and seminaries for the training of priests. In Austria and Hungary the Society enjoyed peace and prosperity. In Bohemia it was an able instrument in defending the Catholic cause against the Hussite legacy and against Calvinism. In Lutheran Germany the Society was rigorously proscribed and its colleges and works suppressed during the Thirty Years War. But the German Provinces were flourishing and active until the fatal year, 1773. The famous theological series published at the university of Wurzburg (Wirceburgenses) is a masterly summary of Catholic doctrine and a scholarly answer to Protestant objections.
A host of Jesuit scholars and preachers infiltrated and attained eminence in German speaking lands.
The Society prospered in Belgium after the first initial struggle. The colleges were numerous and flourishing, while the sodalities were notably successful. The work of the Bollandists in scientific hagiography, begun in the early seventeenth century and continued until our. own day, has gained the admiration of historians throughout the world. Among Belgian Jesuit scholars the great Lessius is pre-eminent. In Poland, also, Jesuits played a leading part in education until the Suppression.
In England, before the Society was fully organized, the penal laws were already in force. These laws drove young men to the continent and as refugees in Douai and Louvain, they fell under the influence of the Jesuits. Many of these entered the Society and the purpose evolved of returning to England for to conquer it back to catholicism. Edmund Campion, Robert Persons, and a succession of others crossed the Channel and were executed for their crimes, when they tried to subvert the monarchy. Many suffered the death penalty under Elizabeth, the Stuarts and the Commonwealth. During this period while some were working secretly in England, others were establishing English colleges in Valladolid, Seville, Liege, St. Omer , and elsewhere. After the period of martyrdom, the Jesuits resided quietly in England and carried on their educational projects abroad. Some controversies between them and the English secular and regular priests on matters of policy were finally settled by the decisions of the Pope.
The dominance of the Presbyterians prevented any but the most guarded entrance of Jesuits into Scotland. What few priests were able to labor among the remnants of Catholics were always under threat of death or banishment.

Educational work, however, was carried on in Paris, Rome, and the Spanish Dominions.
The Irish Jesuits, likewise, engaged in a two-fold work, that of laboring dangerously at home in keeping the Faith among the people despite the Elizabethan, Cromwellian and Georgian persecutions, and that of maintaining a supply of infiltrators priests through ecclesiastical institutions on the continent, at Lisbon and Salamanca.
For most people, mention of the Jesuit foreign missions instantly evokes the memory of St. Francis Xavier. Estoic as were the proportions of this leader's subversive labors, they formed but the spearhead of the campaign for Christ that was to be engaged with varying degrees of success in India. Japan, China, and the East coast of Africa. No little glamour of mystery clustered about the visit of Blessed Rudolph Aquaviva to the Court of Akbar the Great, but the results were not comparable to the numerous conversions which followed the less spectacular attempt of Ven. Robert de Nobili to subvert souls by himself becoming a Brahmin and permitting his neophytes to retain not only their caste system but the veneration of ancestors. Subsequent condemnation of the so-called Malabar rites choked off this hopeful missionary enterprise just at the moment when Fathers Lopez and Acosta were making another application of the same principle among them. In the seventeenth century, the Jesuits spread in fan-like thrusts into Tibet, Persia, and East Africa, penetrating as far as Abyssinia. Apart from a French mission at Pondicherry , most of this work was coextensive with the colonial empire of Spain and Portugal in the Orient. The reform of scandal-giving Christians was an indispensable preliminary to the conversion of the natives. .In the foundation of colleges, seminaries, hospitals and schools, provision was always made for Europeans as well as Hindus, Chinese and Japanese.
One of the most flourishing missions was that to Japan. For St. Francis Xavier, this was a land of his predilection and he prophesied that the dwellers of the island empire would be slow to embrace Catholicism but, once convinced, would remain unshakable. By 1582, thirty years after his death, the number of Catholics was estimated at 200,000 with 250 churches. At the time of the great strife in 1597, this number had soared above a million. Fifteen years later, there were 1,800,000 Catholics and 140 Jesuit missionaries. A period of intense persecution ensued. All Jesuits who landed in the island during this interval were forthwith executed. During the Suppression of the Society the mission suffered from a species of progressive strangulation, but by a miracle of perseverance, compact practicing infiltration, bodies of Catholics were found more than two centuries later when Japan finally was thrown open to world intercourse.
The harvest 'in China, though rich, was not so impressive in mere numbers. The Jesuit scientists, esteemed for their skill in mathematics, astronomy, physics and chemistry, were kept at court and in the higher circles of Chinese society.
Perhaps the best known of the Jesuits who worked in China was Father Matteo Ricci. His scientific apparatus was a source of never-ending admiration to the curious Chinese. In connection with their research, the members of the Society established four colleges, one seminary, and forty mission stations. !
The Mexican Province of the Society of Jesus was founded by Father Pedro Sanchez and fourteen fellow Jesuits in 1572. The first Jesuit college was opened in Mexico City in 1573. Rapid progress was made and in 1581 and 1582, respectively, missionaries were sent out from Mexico to Cuba and to the Philippines. The pioneer labors in Mexico were marked by several executions. Their never ending work of subversion to the gain of Catholicism is relentless. (From the Britannica Encyclopedia 1946)

SUPPRESSION AND RESTORATION <1750-1814)

The chief causes which led to the Suppression of the Society in 1773 were the following: (I) The power of the Society within the Church and at the Catholic Courts aroused in a colossal way. Royal confessors were usually Jesuits, and some of them were charged with exercising undue influence in political affairs; ( 2) The Society was the strongest bulwark of Ultramontane teaching in Catholic Europe; (3) Friction with the Sorbonne and other universities was frequent; (4) The controversies with Dominicans and Franciscans, concerning the doctrine of Grace, the "Chinese Rites," etc., left a legacy of ill-feeling; (5) The lax teaching, on certain points, of the Jesuit moralists. ( 6) Pascal and the Jansenists distrusted and hated the Society; ( 7) Above all, after 1750 deistic "philosophy" largely dominated the educated and ruling classes in Catholic Europe. Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists united with Jansenists and the statesmen to crush the Jesuits, after many governments saw their work of intrigue and subversion.
In 1759 Pombal banished the Society from Portugal and Brazil. In France, Jansenists and philosophers became active against the Jesuits. De Choiseul, the Chief Minister of State, and La Pompadour, were hostile to the Society. In 1762 the Parliament of Paris made the case of Father La Valette, whose mission activities had become involved in quasi-commercial transactions, an occasion for condemning the Institute and "blind obedience" of the Society as "immoral." Despite the protests of a majority of the episcopate, in 1764, Louis XV. consented to the expulsion of the Society from France, for the good of the country.
In 1767 Charles III. of Spain violently expelled all Jesuits from his vast Empire, his well founded fear, for expelling the order was their history of assassinations and conspiracies overthrowing governments. In the same year Tanucci expelled the Society from Naples. The Bourbon Courts and Portugal now joined to force the Holy See into entirely suppressing the sinister Order.
In the Papal Conclave of 1769, twenty-three Cardinals were "vetoed" as "Zelanti" or pro- Jesuit. On May 19, 1769, Cardinal Ganganelli was chosen Pope unanimously, and took the name of Clement XIV. He had expressed the view that the Suppression might become necessary : "Sometimes we must cut down a mast to save the ship." Still, he ratified the privileges of the Society in a most laudatory Brief after his accession. Moninq, the Spanish Ambassador, threatened schism unless the Pope yielded.
In Germany and Austria, on the contrary, bishops, princes and cities presented memorials in behalf of the Order. Clement XIV.
attempted to avert the evil day by diplomatic concessions but finally yielded. On July 21, 1773, appeared the Brief of Suppression, Dominus ac Redemptor Noster. This Brief (not a Bull) is narrative rather than judicial in tone. Clement XIV cited the difficulties of the Society and enumerated present complaints against it, notably charges of political and mercantile activities and the hostility of the Bourbon Courts and of Portugal. The Pope thus concluded the Brief: "For the sake of peace, and because the Society can no longer attain the aims for which it was founded, and on secret grounds which we enclose in our heart, we suppress the said Society." The "secret grounds" have never been disclosed, but it is probable that Clement XIV. meant the threats to which he had been subjected. The Brief became effective only when promulgated by the Bishops. It condemns neither the teaching, nor the morals, nor the discipline of the Jesuits, but their sinister maquinations and schemes. As Spit tIer notes, "It is useless either as. a justification or a condemnation" of the Society. It was not preceded by any judicial investigation, and Clement XIV.
based it upon motives' of policy.
Some verdicts of historians upon the Suppression merit notice.
Ranke (Romische Papste III., 205) writes: "The Jesuits were destroyed chiefly because they defended the strongest conception of the supremacy of the Roman See." St. Alphonsus Ligouri declared that the Suppression was due to "a plot of J ansenists and others." Pope Pius XI. called the Suppression "a painful page of history." :It seems clear that the elements which pushed forward the Suppression were the Jansenists, the philosophers, and the advocates of unlimited secular absolutism;
that Clement XIV. acted under fear of the Jesuits taking to much power; and that, when free, Bishops, and the laity in general, bore witness to the learning and blind zeal of the Society.
The chief effects of the Suppression were the following: ( I) A severe blow was dealt to Catholic higher education in Europe.
The spread of deistic philosophy and of revolutionary doctrine was the work of the Jesuits and this backfire on themselves. Charles III. had unwittingly removed one great support of the Spanish Crown when he crushed the Society in his Empire. (2) The damage to their foreign missions was extreme. The Reductions of Paraguay fell into ruin; and in India, China and throughout Latin America, the Suppression of the Society caused a freedom in politics never seen before. (3) Sorel deemed the Suppression a "death blow to Papal prestige." Two sovereigns refused to permit the publication of the Brief of Suppression, Frederick II. of Prussia and Catherine II. of Russia. As long as Frederick lived, he encouraged the continuance of the Jesuit colleges in Prussia, but his successor, in 1786, seized the institutions and revenues and sent the Fathers into exile. Catherine declared she wished the Society to continue as a teaching body in White Russia, that portion which Russia received in the spoliation of Poland. In 1776, there were 45 members scattered through 12 establishments. In 1780, a novitiate was opened for the perpetuation of the Order. In that same year, Catherine asked Pius VI. for sanction in her protection of the Society. While the Pope would not agree, he did not disagree; the survival, then, was considered not illegitimate.
The Brief Catholicae Fidei issued in 1801 by Pius VII. positively approved of the corporate existence of the Russian Society, and Francis Kareu was created General. Meanwhile, former members of the Society were being received, either in person or by name. Catherine, and her two successors, Paul I. and Alexander I., proved friendly protectors and patrons of the Order. By a Papal Brief, the Society was extended from Russia in 1804, but was dispersed two years later. The rise of comunism in Rusia was the result of the order suppression in many countries. The Jesuits found a haven in Rusia and there they torpedo the Monarchy and implemented communism. Jesuit Lenin succeeded with the establishment of communism and tyranny.

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From the book "The Secret History of the Jesuits" by Edmund Paris.

Section V

Chapter 5

The Gestapo and the Company of Jesus

Chapter 5

The Gestapo and the Company of Jesus

    If Pius XI and Pius XII's goodwill and friendliness never failed towards the Fuhrer whom they had brought to power, we must admit that he fulfilled all the conditions of the pact by which he was bound to the Vatican. As he had expressly promised to "strangle" the anticlericals. they soon followed the liberals and Jews into the concentration camps. We know how the chief of the Third Reich had decided the fate of the Jews:
they were simply massacred or, when more advantagous, made to work until worn out then liquidated. In this case the 'final solution' was only delayed.
But let us see, first, how an especially "authorised" personality, Franco.
Knight of the Order of Christ, expressly confirmed the collusion between the Vatican and the nazis. According to "Reforme", this is what the press of the Spanish dictator (Franco) published on the 3rd of May 1945. the day of Hitler's death:
"Adolf Hitler, son of the Catholic Church, died while defending Christianity. It is therefore understandable that words cannot be found to lament over his death, when so many were found to exalt his life. Over his mortal remains stands his victorious moral figure. With the palm of the martyr, God gives Hitler the laurels of Victory".( 107) This funeral oration of the nazi chief, a challenge to the victorious allies.
is voiced by the Holy See itself, under the cover of Franco's press. It is a communique of the Vatican given via Madrid.
Of course, this missing hero well deserved the gratitude of the Roman Church and they do not attempt to conceal it. He served her faithfully: all those this Church pointed out to him as her adversaries felt the consequences. And this good 'son' wasn't slow in admitting what he owed to his Most Holy Mother, and especially to those who made themselves her

(107) '.Reforme", 21st of July 1945
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soldiers in the world.
"I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits", said Hitler... "Until now.
there has never been anything more grandiose. on the earth, than the hierarchical organization of the Catholic Church. I transferred much of this organisation into my own party... I am going to let you in on a secret... I am founding an Order... In my "Burgs" of the Order, we will raise up a youth which will make the world tremble... Hitler then stopped, saying that he couldn't say any more.."( 108) Another highly placed hitlerian. Walter Schellenberg, former chief of the German counter-espionage, completed this confidence from the Fuhrer.
after the war:
"The S.S. organization had been constituted, by Himmler, according to the principles of the Jesuits' Order. Their regulations and the Spiritual Exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly... The "Reichsfuhrer SS"-Himmler's title as supreme chief of the SS-was to be the equivalent of the Jesuits' "General" and the whole structure of the direction was a close imitation of the Catholic Church's hierarchical order. A mediaeval castle, near Paderborn in Westphalia, and called "Webelsbourg", was restored; it became what could be called aSS monastery".( I 09) For their part, the best theological pens were busy demonstrating the similarity between the Catholic and Nazi doctrines. And, for that work. the sons of Loyola were the busiest. As an example, let us see how Michaele Schmaus. Jesuit theologian, presented to the public a series of studies on this subject:
"Empire and Church" is a series of writings which should help the building up of the Third Reich as it unites a national-socialist state to CathoIic-christianity... The national-socialist movement is the most vigorous and massive protest against the spirit of the 19th and 20th centuries... A compromise between the Catholic faith and liberal thinking is impossible... Nothing is more contrary to Catholicism than democracy...
The re-awakened meaning of "strict authority" opens up again the way to the real interpretation of ecclesiastical authority. . . The mistrust of liberty is founded on the Catholic doctrine of original sin... The national-socialist Commandments and those of the Catholic Church have the same aim..."( 110)

( 108) Hermann Rauschning. former national-socialist chief of the government of Dantzig ..Hiller m.a di!. (Ed Co-operation. Paris ]939. pp.266. 267.273 ss).
( 109) \\alter Schellenberg .'Le Chef du contre-espionnage nazi vous parle.. (Julliard. Paris 1957. pp23-24) ( 110) "Begegnungen zwichen Kathollschen Christentum und nazional-sozialitischer \'eitanchaunung... by Michaele Schma:ls. profe:isor at the Faculty of Theology of Munich ( Aschendorf. Munster 1933).

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This aim was the "new middle-ages" Hitler promised Europe. The similarity is obvious between the passionate anti-liberalism of this Jesuit from Munich and the equal fanaticism expressed during the "act of consecration of the F.N.C. in the basilica of Montmartre". During the occupation, the R.P. Merklen wrote: "These days, liberty no longer seems to merit any esteem".(III) Quotations such as these could be multiplied by the thousand. Is not this hatred of liberty under all its forms the character itself of the Roman Master? It is easy also to understand how the Catholic "doctrine" and the nazi "doctrine" could harmonise so well. The one who ably demonstrated this accord, "The Jesuit Michaele Schmaus", was called by 'La Croix', ten years after the war, the "great theologian of Munich"( 112), and nobody will be surprised to learn that he was made a "Prince of the Church" by Pius XII.
U nder the circumstances, what becomes of the "terrible" encyclical letter "Mit brennender Sorge", from Pius XI, which was supposed to condemn nazism? No casuist has tried to tell us... naturally!
The "great theologian" Michaele Schmaus had many rivals, according to a German author who sees in the "Katolisch-Konser..atives Erbgut" the strangest book ever published by the German Catholic Publications:
"This anthology which brings together texts from the main Catholic theorists of Germany, from Gorres to Vogelsang, makes us believe that national-socialism was born out of Catholic ideas".( 113) When writing this, the author certainly didn't realise he was describing it so perfectly.
Another well informed person, the mainspring of the pact between the Holy See and Berlin and the pope's secret chamberlain, Franz von Papen, was even more explicit:
"The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy".( 114) To this, we will add the result of this "putting into practice": 25 million victims of the concentration camps-the official figure issued by the United \'ations Organisation.
Here, we find it necessary to add something especially for candid minds, for those who cannot admit that the organised massacres were one of the papacy's "high principles". Of course, this candour is diligently

(111) "La Croix", 2nd of September 1951 ( 112) "La Croix", 2nd of September 1954 ( 113) Gunter Buxbaum- "Les Catholiques en Europe centrale" ("\1ercure de France.'. 15th of January 1939) ( 114) Robert d'Harcourt of the French Academy "Franz Yon Papen. !'homme a tout faire'.
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maintained:
-"Such barbarian deeds belong to the past"!
So say some good apostles to the simple, while shrugging their shoulders before the non-catholics "for whom the fires of the Holy Inquisition are still burning".( 115) So be it! Let us set aside the superabundant testimonies about the clerical ferocity of years gone by to consider the 2Oth century.
We will not recall either the exploits of men like Stepinac and Marcone in Croatia, nor Tiso in Slovakia, but will confine ourselves to examining the orthodoxy of certain "high principles" they put so well into practice.
Are they really out-dated today-these principles-disowned by an "enlightened doctrine", officially rejected by the Holy See with other mistakes of a dark past? It is easy to find out.
Let us, for example, open the "Great Apologetics", by the Abbe Jean Vieujan, which can hardly be described as mediaeval as it is dated " 1937~.
What do we read?
"To accept the principle of the Inquisition, one only needs a Christian mentality, and this is what many Christians lack... The Church has no such timidity".(116) One could not put it better .
Is another proof, no less orthodox and modern, necessary? Listen to the R.P. Janvier, a famous conference speaker at Notre-Dame:
"By virtue of her indirect power over temporal matters, should not the Church have the right to expect Catholic States to oppress heretics even to the point of death, so as to suppress them?
Here is my answer:
"1 do advocate this, even to the point of death!... Leaning first of all on the practice, then on the teaching of the Church itself; and I am convinced that no Catholic would say the opposite without erring gravely".( 117) We could not accuse this theologian of speaking in riddles. His speech is clear and concise. It would be impossible to say more with fewer words.
Everything is there, concerning the right the Church arrogates to herself to exterminate those whose beliefs do not correspond with hers: the "teaching" which compels her, the "practice" which legitimates by tradition, and even the "call to the Christian states", of which the hitlerian crusade was such a perfect example.
The following words, far from ambigious, were not pronounced in the darkness of the Middle-Ages either:
"The Church can condemn heretics to death, for any rights they have are

1115) ..Temolgnage chretien"', 6th of December 1957 ( Ilh) Ahbe Jean Vieujan ..Grande Apologetique" (Bloud et Gay. Paris 1937, p.1316) ! II-) Conference of the 25th of \1arch 1912
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only through our tolerance, and these rights are apparent not real".
The author of this was the Jesuits' general Franz Wernz ( 1906-1915). and the fact that he was German as well gives even more weight to his declaration.
During the 20th century also, Cardinal Lepicier, notoroius prince of the Church, wrote: "If someone professes publicly to be an heretic or tries to pervert others, by his speech or example, he can not only be excommunicated, but also justly killed..."(118 & 118a). If that's not a characteristic appeal to murder, I might as well be "changed into a peppermill" as the late Courteline said.
Is the Sovereign Pontiffs contribution wanted as well? Here it is. from a modern pope whose "liberalism" was criticised by intransigent clerics. the Jesuit Pope Leo XIII: " Anathema on the one who says: the Holy Spirit does not want us to kill the heretic".
What higher authority could be invoked after this one. apart from that of the Holy Spirit?
Even though this may displease those who manipulate the smokescreen (reference to those who put out smoke signals during the choice of a Pope), the soothers of disquieted consciences, the papacy's "high principles" remain unchanged and, amongst other things. the extermination for the Faith is as valid and canonical today as it was in the past. A conclusion most "enlightening"-to use a word dear to mystics-when we consider \\hat happened in Europe between 1939 and 1945.
"Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler and most members of the party's "old guard" were Catholics", wrote M. Frederic Hoffet. "It was not by accident that, because of its chiefs' religion, the National-socialist government was the most Catholic Germany ever had... This kinship between Nationalsocialism and Catholicism is most striking if we study closely the propaganda methods and the interior organisation of the party. On that subject, nothing is more instructive than Joseph Goebbel's works. He had been brought up in a Jesuit college and was a seminarist before devoting himself to literature and politics... Every page. every line of his writings recall the teaching of his masters; so he stresses obedience... the contempt for truth. . . "Some lies are as useful as bread !" he proclaimed by virtue of a moral relativism extracted from Ignatius of Loyola's writings..."( 119) Hitler did not award the palm of Jesuitism to his chief of propaganda, though to the Gestapo's chief, as he told his favourites: "I can see Himmler as our Ignatius of Loyola"(120).

118) .'De stabi1itate et progressu dogmatis.'. first part. art VI 9 I ("Typographia editrix .omana. Romae 1908").
118a) See Sol Ferrer-Francisco Ferrer Ln \1artyr au XXe siecle (Fischbacher. Paris) 119) Frederic Hoffe, '.L.lmperialisme protestan{ (Flammarion. Paris 1948. ppl-2 ss) 120) Adolf Hi!ler "Libres propos.. (F1ammarion. Paris 1952. p164)
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To speak thus, the Fuhrer must have had some good reasons. First of all.
we notice that Kurt Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuhrer of the SS, Gestapo and German police forces, seemed to be the one most impregnated by clericalism amongst the Catholic members of Hitler's entourage. His father had been director of a Catholic school in Munich, then tutor of Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria. His brother, a Benedictine monk, lived at the monastery of Maria Laach, one of the Pan-German high places. He also had an uncle who had held the important position of Canon at the Court of Bavaria, the Jesuit Himmler.
The German author Walter Hagen gives also this discreet information:
"The Jesuits' general, Count Halke von Ledochowski, was ready to organise, on the common basis of anti-communism, some collaboration between the German Secret Service and the Jesuit Order".( 121 ) As a result, within the SS Central Security Service, an organisation was created. and most of its main posts were held by Catholic priests wearing the black uniform of the SS. The Jesuit Father Himmler was one of its superior officers.
After the Third Reich's capitulation, the Jesuit Father Himmler was arrested and imprisoned at Nuremberg. His hearing by the international tribunal would have apparently been most interesting, but Providence was keeping a watchful eye: Heinrich Himmler's uncle never appeared before that court. One morning, he W AS FOUND DEAD IN HIS CELL. and the public never learned the cause of his death.
We will not insult the memory of this cleric by supposing that he willingly ended his days, against the solemn teaching laws of the Roman Church.
Nevertheless, his death was as sudden and opportune as the one of another Jesuit, sometime before, Father Staempfle, the unrecognised author of 'Mein Kampf. Strange coincidence indeed...
But let us come back to Kurt Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo, which meant he held in his hand the essential reins of power of the regime.
Was it his personal merits which earned him such a high position? Did Hitler see in him a superior genius when he compared him to the creator of the Jesuit Order? It is certainly not what the testimonies of those who knew him imply as they saw in him nothing more than mediocrity.
Was that star shining with a borrowed brightness? Was it really Kurt Heinrich Himmler, the ostensible chief, who actually reigned over the Gestapo and the secret services? Who was sending millions of people, deported for political reasons, and Jews to their death? Was it the flat-faced nephew or the uncle, former Canon at the Court of Bavaria, one of von Ledochowski's favourites, a Jesuit Father and superior officer of the SS?
It may seem reckless, and even presumptuous, to take such an indiscreet

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look behind the scenes of History. The play is performed on the stage.
before the combined lights of the footlights. the stagelights and the arc lights. This is normal for any show; and the one who wants to see behind the props may well be regarded as troublesome and ill-bred.
However, the spell binding actors on whom the public's gaze is fixed have all come from behind the scenes. This is more than evident when we study these "sacred monsters" and realise that they are far from equal to the individuals they are supposed to represent.
Such seems to have been the case of Himmler . But wouldn't it be right to say the same of the one whom he helped as his right hand man, Hitler?
When we saw Hitler gesticulating on the screens or heard him bawling his hysterical speeches, did we not have the impression of looking at the movements of an automaton ill adjusted, with overstretched springs? Even his most simple and composed movements reminded us of a mechanical puppet. And what about his dull and globular eyes, flabby nose, bloated physiognomy whose vulgarity could not be disguised by that famous lock of hair and brush moustache which seemed glued under his nostrils.
Was this snarler at public meetings really a chief? the "real" master of Germany, an "authentic" Statesman whose genius was going to turn the world upside-down?
Or was he just a bad substitute for all that? A covering skin cleverly blown up and a phantom for the use of the masses, a rabble rouser?
He himself admitted it when he said: "I am only a clarion". M. FrancoisPoncet, then French ambassador to Berlin, confirms that Hitler worked very little, was not a reader and let his collaborators have their own way.
His helpers gave the same impression of emptiness and unreality. The first one, Rudolf Hess, who flew to England in 1941, looked on his own trial at Nuremberg as a total stranger, and we never learned if he was completely insane or just a lunatic. The second one was the grotesque Goering, vain and obese, who wore the most spectacular comic-opera uniforms. a glutton, a great robber of paintings and, to top it all, a morphine drug addict.
The other main personalities of the party bore the same resemblance and, at the trials of Nuremberg, it was one of the journalists greatest surprises to have to report that apart from their own particular defects these Nazi heroes lacked in intellect, character, and were more or less insignificant.
The only one who stood above that vulgar mob-because of his astuteness and not his moral worth-was Franz von Papen the chamberlain of His holiness, "the man for every job"... who was bound to be acquitted.
If the Fuhrer comes out as an extraordinary puppet, was the one he modelled himself upon more consistent? Let us recall the ridiculous
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exhibitions of that "Caesar fit for a carnival", rolling his big black eyes that he wanted to flash under that strange hat decorated with curtain tassels!
And those photographs meant for propaganda, taken from his feet and depicting only his jaws, jutting out against the sky, the wonder man, as an immovable rock-symbol of a will which knew no obstacles!
What a will! From the confidences of some of his companions, we get the picture of a man constantly undecided; this "formidable man" who was going to .'invade everything", with elemental force (to use terms of Cardinal Rat ti, future Pius XI), did not resist the advances made to him by the Jesuit Cardinal Gasparri, secretary of State, on behalf of the Vatican.
Just a few secret meetings persuaded the revolutionist to enlist bag and baggage under the Holy Father's standard, to carve out the brilliant career we know so well, and the well known former minister Carlo Sforza could write:
.'One day, when time will have attenuated the bitterness and hatred, it will be recognised we hope, that the orgy of bloody brutalities which turned Italy into a prison for twenty years, and ruins through the 1940-1945 war , found its origin in an almost unique historical case: the utter disproportion between the legend artificially created around a name and the real capacities of the poor devil who bore that name, a man who was not obstructed by culture".( 122) This perfect formula is applicable to Hitler, as well as Mussolini: same disproportion between the legend and capacities, same lack of "culture" in those two mediocre adventurers with almost identical pasts: their lightning careers can find an explanation only in their gift for haranguing the masses. a gift which brought them before the glare of publicity.
That the legend was "artifically created" is evident enough when we know that, today. the Fuhrer's retrospective apparition on the screens of Germany provokes nothing more than a huge laugh.
But was not the obvious inferiority of these "providential men" the very reason for which they were chosen to be elevated to power? The fact is that the same lack of personal qualities can be found in all those the papacy elected to be its champions.
In Italy and Germany, there were some "real" statesmen, "real" chiefs, who were able to take the helm and govern without having to resort to this delirious "mystic". But these were too bright intellectually and not sufficiently pliable. The Vatican, and especially the "black pope", von Ledochowski. could not have held them ''as a baton in his hand", according to the fiery formula, and made them serve his aims at all costs until catastrophe struck.
We have seen how the revolutionist Mussolini was turned inside out, as

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one would do with a glove, by the Holy See's emissaries who promised him power .
The unbending Hitler was to prove just as malleable. The Ledochowski's plan was, originally, to create a federation of the Catholic nations in central and eastern Europe, in which Bavaria and Austria (governed by the Jesuit Seipel) would have had the pre-eminence. Bavaria had to be separated from the German Republic of Weimar and, as by chance, the agitator Hitler, of Austrian origin, was then a Bavarian separatist.
But the chance to realise this federation and place a Hapsburg at its head became more and more slim, whilst Monseigneur Pacelli, the nuncio who had left Munich for Berlin, became the more conscious of the German Republic's weakness because of the poor support the Allies gave it. The hope to get hold of Germany as a whole was then born at the Vatican and the plan was modified accordingly:
"The hegemony of Protestant Prussia had to be prevented and as the Reich was to dominate Europe to avert the Germans' federalism a Reich had to be reconstituted in which the Catholics would be masters".(123) This was enough. Turning completely round with his "brown shirts", Hitler, who had been until then a Bavarian separatist, became overnight the inspired Apostle of the Great Reich.
 

From the book "The Secret History of the Jesuits" by Edmund Paris


    "Adolf Hitler , son of the Catholic Church, died while defending Christianity. It is therefore understandable  that words can not be found to lament over his death, when so many were found to exalt his life. Over his mortal remains stands his victorious moral figure. With the palm of the martyr, God gives Hitler the laurels of Victory".

Francisco Franco Dictator of Spain on Adolf Hitler.