Agreed! If you boat springs a leak, you fix it not jump ship.
Here's the short, short history of the topic:
"Having enjoyed very high favor among Catholic peoples, kings, prelates, and popes for two centuries and a half centuries, it suddenly becomes an object of frenzied hostility, is overwhelmed with obloquy, and overthrown with dramatic rapidity. Every work of the Jesuits — their vast missions, their noble colleges, their churches — all is taken from them or destroyed. They are banished, and their order suppressed, with harsh and denunciatory words even from the pope. What makes the contrast more striking is that their protectors for the moment are former enemies — the Russians and Frederick of Prussia. Like many intricate problems, its solution is best found by beginning with what is easy to understand. We look forward a generation, and we see that every one of the thrones, the pope's not excluded, which had been active in the Suppression is overwhelmed. France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy become, and indeed still are, a prey to the extravagance of the [French] Revolutionary movement. The Suppression of the Society was due to the same causes which in further development brought about the French Revolution. "
Thanks. I am an apologist in the original meaning of the term, apologia (Latin for apology, from the Greek) meaning "speaking in defense". I don't proselytize, I don't like doing that because I think people need to come to God in their own way.
Agreed! If you boat springs a leak, you fix it not jump ship.
Here's the short, short history of the topic:
"Having enjoyed very high favor among Catholic peoples, kings, prelates, and popes for two centuries and a half centuries, it suddenly becomes an object of frenzied hostility, is overwhelmed with obloquy, and overthrown with dramatic rapidity. Every work of the Jesuits — their vast missions, their noble colleges, their churches — all is taken from them or destroyed. They are banished, and their order suppressed, with harsh and denunciatory words even from the pope. What makes the contrast more striking is that their protectors for the moment are former enemies — the Russians and Frederick of Prussia. Like many intricate problems, its solution is best found by beginning with what is easy to understand. We look forward a generation, and we see that every one of the thrones, the pope's not excluded, which had been active in the Suppression is overwhelmed. France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy become, and indeed still are, a prey to the extravagance of the [French] Revolutionary movement. The Suppression of the Society was due to the same causes which in further development brought about the French Revolution. "
Thanks. I am an apologist in the original meaning of the term, apologia (Latin for apology, from the Greek) meaning "speaking in defense". I don't proselytize, I don't like doing that because I think people need to come to God in their own way.