Further we have noticed that the Society of Jesus is no longer able to produce the very rich fruits and usefulness for which it was founded and approved and enhanced with so many privileges by our predecessors. Indeed, it happens that scarcely or not at all can the true and lasting peace of the Church be restored as long as the Society is intact. Accordingly, we are moved by these very grave reasons and are pressed by other considerations that the laws of prudence and the best government of the universal Church impose upon us, and which we keep stored deeply in our mind. We follow in the footsteps of our predecessors, especially of Gregory X in the general council of Lyons. Now there is question of the Society, of its Institute, and of its privileges, which assimilate it to the mendicant orders. From sure knowledge and fullness of apostolic power, we abolish and suppress the oft-mentioned Society. We take away and abrogate each and every one of its offices, ministries, administrations, houses, schools, colleges, retreats, farms, and any properties in whatsoever province, realm, and jurisdiction and in whatever way pertaining to the Society. We do away with the statutes customs, usages, decrees, Constitutions, even those confirmed by oath, by apostolic approval, or by other means. We wish that the present document, as if corresponding word for word to all the Society’s privileges and indults, both general and special, fully and sufficiently does away with them even if the privileges were formulated with legal safeguards.
Pope Clement XIV
Dominus ac Redemptor (1773)
News that PopeWatch missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
VATICAN—Amid the international controversy surrounding Catholic priests blessing same-sex unions, Pope Francis decided to explore the archives and consult an ancient book called the Bible to make sure he was getting it right.
“Whew, it’s been a little while since I opened up this bad boy!” he said. “Let me see here…”
As soon as he opened up the book, a massive cloud of dust and debris catapulted off the cover, out the window, and into the clear Vatican sky
“Mamma Mia!” exclaimed several onlookers. “The Holy Father! He’s reading the Bible!”
The dust continued to rise into the sky, obscuring the sun and causing thousands of local residents to gasp for breath.
“Why didn’t he warn us he was going to open the book?” people cried as they scattered in all directions, trying to avoid what was now a powerful sandstorm heading their way.
The Pope read the book for a while, and after determining none of the teachings had changed since he last opened it, put it back on the shelf and announced the Catholic church would not be changing its doctrine– at least until the Pope announces the meanings of the words have changed in light of modern interpretation.
Go here to read the rest. Of course The Bee fails to understand that normally popes read the Bible constantly, but this pope is a Jesuit, our first one from that Order, and Jesuits of his generation were taught to hold the Bible in very high esteem and not darken its pages overmuch. Some rebel Jesuits indeed have ignored this advice and been champions of the teachings of the Church, but the Pope has not been in their number.
Somewhere in the annals of Our Blessed Mother or one of the saints it was indicated that very few religious orders or institutions would survive until Christ comes again. From all we know now the Jesuits will not be among them.
If I understand it correctly, the uniqueness of the Jesuits was to come to the world and learn its ways in order to further the growth of God’s church. It appears that the modern order has bogged down with accomplishing the first part–coming into the world and learning its ways. Their dalliance’s with Godless Marxist Liberation Theology in Latin America alone has cost the masses to rush into the arms of many a protestant minister who talked about the faith and the hereafter instead of leftist political social justice nonsense.