In Chapter 1 the Jesuits, they are set apart from other orders for many reasons. The first big one is that they grew the fastest they traveled places such as northern Italy as well as central, India, Southeast asia, Brazil, Japan, and many more places. As the book says that “The Society of Jesus was only one of several new religious orders founded at the same time, but it grew and achieved status that far exceeded the others” (O'Malley 114). Thus proving that the Jesuits were really growing. Aside from the Jesuits spreading to other areas of the world, they themselves were like Dominicans and Franciscans. The only difference was they were “an updated version of the so called merchant orders” (O'Malley 114), along with that was their motto
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The struggles were problems in the organization. When the Jesuits were interdicted from the Republic of Venice because they sided with the Pope instead of the Republic, they were let back into the Republic after 55 years had passed. The first major problem was from a small group of Jesuits in Spain, they resented Aquaviva because of his methods, they thought that “an animus against Aquaviva, they advocated that rectors and provincials be elected on a local level instead of being appointed by the general in Rome” (O’Malley 511). All this would have led to a change in the Constitutions, but later the Jesuits had a congregation that ultimately decided against the change. The second problem was when the Spanish Jesuits and the Spanish Dominican Jesuits fighting and calling each other a heresy. So finally to end it Pope Paul V ordered “a cease-fire and forbade both the Jesuits and the Dominicans from ever denouncing the doctrine of the other as dangerous or heretical. Despite this problem it brought out the good bias that Jesuits have about free agency. From these two problems it actually benefitted the Jesuits by drawing crowds and getting people interested. Then came the “black legend,” it was a book about the Jesuits, but in those pages were “secret instructions from the superior general of the Society telling select members how to fleece widows of their fortunes, how to blackmail rulers, and how to climb …show more content…
The adjustments were as it seems more restrictions but it lead to other things. For instance in America the Jesuits just “eventually organized themselves to into a civilly organized institution to the thirty thousand Catholics there precisely as they had always done” (O’Malley 1107). The institute that is most known was Georgetown Academy. While Two rulers refuse to believe/ follow what was implemented about the Jesuits, they were Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia. These rulers allowed the the Jesuits in their community to keep doing what they were doing without the suppressions rules from Rome. Seeing as this happens it seems that some people think that suppression was unnecessary for all the problems that happened to the Jesuit wasn’t really their fault, but that’s just my opinion. Then finally towards the 1800s the reestablishment of the Jesuits started to happen. “Even some former enemies of the Society who demanded its suppression regretted what had happened and petitioned the pope to bring back the Jesuits” (O’Malley 1139). Officially on August 7, 1814 the universal restoration of the society of Jesus
The struggles were problems in the organization. When the Jesuits were interdicted from the Republic of Venice because they sided with the Pope instead of the Republic, they were let back into the Republic after 55 years had passed. The first major problem was from a small group of Jesuits in Spain, they resented Aquaviva because of his methods, they thought that “an animus against Aquaviva, they advocated that rectors and provincials be elected on a local level instead of being appointed by the general in Rome” (O’Malley 511). All this would have led to a change in the Constitutions, but later the Jesuits had a congregation that ultimately decided against the change. The second problem was when the Spanish Jesuits and the Spanish Dominican Jesuits fighting and calling each other a heresy. So finally to end it Pope Paul V ordered “a cease-fire and forbade both the Jesuits and the Dominicans from ever denouncing the doctrine of the other as dangerous or heretical. Despite this problem it brought out the good bias that Jesuits have about free agency. From these two problems it actually benefitted the Jesuits by drawing crowds and getting people interested. Then came the “black legend,” it was a book about the Jesuits, but in those pages were “secret instructions from the superior general of the Society telling select members how to fleece widows of their fortunes, how to blackmail rulers, and how to climb …show more content…
The adjustments were as it seems more restrictions but it lead to other things. For instance in America the Jesuits just “eventually organized themselves to into a civilly organized institution to the thirty thousand Catholics there precisely as they had always done” (O’Malley 1107). The institute that is most known was Georgetown Academy. While Two rulers refuse to believe/ follow what was implemented about the Jesuits, they were Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia. These rulers allowed the the Jesuits in their community to keep doing what they were doing without the suppressions rules from Rome. Seeing as this happens it seems that some people think that suppression was unnecessary for all the problems that happened to the Jesuit wasn’t really their fault, but that’s just my opinion. Then finally towards the 1800s the reestablishment of the Jesuits started to happen. “Even some former enemies of the Society who demanded its suppression regretted what had happened and petitioned the pope to bring back the Jesuits” (O’Malley 1139). Officially on August 7, 1814 the universal restoration of the society of Jesus