RT Article
T1 The Jesuits as Portrayed by non-Catholic Historians
JF Harvard theological review
VO 7
IS 3
SP 358
OP 377
A1 Rockwell, William Walker
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1914
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1784634166
AB From the days of Ignatius Loyola until now the Society of Jesus has bulked large in the imagination of the English-speaking races. The Elizabethan certainty that Jesuits were concerned in plots against the sovereign led with remorseless logic to hangings and quarterings at Tyburn. The Puritan prejudice, common especially in the seventeenth century, that the Pope was Antichrist, made his Jesuit emissaries appear dangerous and almost uncanny. The Enlightenment of the age of Voltaire saw in them a band of obscurantists of darkest dye, whose sinister influence over education and politics properly led the Bourbon courts to expel them from the chief Catholic countries of Europe, and to secure in 1773 from a hesitating Pope their utter and perpetual abolition. In the Brief of suppression the Pope himself enumerated their weaknesses and faults, and declared that these were so great as to outweigh their manifest and signal services; therefore the repudiation.
DO 10.1017/S0017816000011469