First Jesuit Pope...and Jesuit Oath

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Pergamum

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The media is making much of the fact that we have the first "American" Pope (even though I think he is still of Italian ancestry)...but bigger news is that this first is a JESUIT!

They seemed to be formed during the Counter-Reformation to help combat Protestantism.

Also, I keep hearing news of "Jesuit Oaths" and I am trying to track down the truth.

Christian Doctrine from Bible Theology Ministries Article 00144 The Jesuit oath & The Cardinal's Oath

The Jesuit Oath

“I now, in the presence of the Almighty God, the blessed virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St John the Baptist...and my ghostly father, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, founded by St Ignatius Loyola, do, by the womb of the Virgin... swear that His Holiness the Pope is Christ’s vice-regent, and is the true and only Head of the Catholic or Universal Church... I do now renounce and dis-own any allegiance is due to any heretical King, Prince, or State, named Protestant or Liberal, or obedience to any of their laws or magistrates, or officers.

I do further declare the doctrine of the Church of England, and Scotland, and of Calvinists, Huguenots, and others of the name of Protestant or Liberal, to be damnable, and themselves to be damned, who will not forsake the same. I do further promise and declare that, notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to assume my religion heretical for the propagation of Mother Church’s interest, to keep secret and private all her agents, counsels, from time to time, as they interest me, and not divulge directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or circumstances whatever.

I do furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants... as I am directed to; extirpate them from the face of the earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex, or condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive those infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of the women, and crush their infant’s heads against the wall in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poison cup, the strangulating cords, the steels of the poinard, or the leaden bullets, regardless of the honour, rank, dignity, or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed to, by any agent of the Pope, or the superior of the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus.

In confirmation of which I hereby dedicate my life, my soul, and my corporeal powers; and with this dagger, which I now receive, I will subscribe my name written in blood in testimony thereof; and should I prove false, or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow-soldiers of the militia of the Pope, cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat from ear to ear, rip my belly open, and sulphur burn therein, and all the punishments that can be inflicted on me on earth, and my soul be tortured by demons in an eternal hell for ever.

In testimony thereof I take this most holy and blessed sacrament of the Eucharist, and witness the same further with my name written with the point of this dagger, dipped in my own blood, and sealed in the face of the holy covenant.”

Also,


EIPS - The Jesuit Oath Exposed

(The Superior speaks:)

My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a Reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope. You have been taught to plant insidiously the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and to incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace; to take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means. You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the judiciaries and councils of state, and to be all things to all men, for the Pope's sake, whose servants we are unto death. You have received all your instructions heretofore as a novice, a neophyte, and have served as co-adjurer, confessor and priest, but you have not yet been invested with all that is necessary to command in the Army of Loyola in the service of the Pope. You must serve the proper time as the instrument and executioner as directed by your superiors; for none can command here who has not consecrated his labours with the blood of the heretic; for "without the shedding of blood no man can be saved". Therefore, to fit yourself for your work and make your own salvation sure, you will, in addition to your former oath of obedience to your order and allegiance to the Pope, repeat after me:

(Text of the Oath:)

I_______________ , now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, and all the saints, sacred host of Heaven, and to you, my Ghostly Father, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the pontification of Paul the Third, and continued 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 that by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given to His Holiness by my Saviour, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical Kings, Princes, States, Commonwealths, and Governments, and they may be safely destroyed. Therefore to the utmost of my power I will defend this doctrine and His Holiness's right and custom 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 and Churches of England and Scotland, and the branches of same now established in Ireland and on the continent of America and elsewhere and all adherents in regard that they may be usurped and heretical, opposing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do now denounce 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 the doctrine of the Churches of England and Scotland of the Calvinists, Huguenots, and others of the name of Protestants or Masons to be damnable, and they themselves to be damned who will not forsake the same. I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of His Holiness's agents, in any place where I should be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Ireland or America, or in any other kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant or Masonic 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 time, as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstances whatever; but to execute all that should be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me by you, my Ghostly Father, or any of this sacred order. 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 will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ. That I will go to any part of the world whithersoever I may be sent, to the frozen regions north, jungles of India, to the centres of civilisation of Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America without murmuring or repining, and will be submissive in all things, whatsoever is communicated to me. I do further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honour, rank, dignity or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agents of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus. In confirmation of which I hereby dedicate my life, soul, and all corporal powers, and with the dagger which I now receive I will subscribe my name written in my blood in testimony thereof; and should I prove false, or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the militia of the Pope cut off my hands and feet and my throat from ear to ear, my belly be opened and sulphur burned therein with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth, and my soul shall be tortured by demons in eternal hell forever. That I will in voting always vote for a Knight of Columbus in preference to a Protestant, especially a Mason, and that I will leave my party so to do; that if two Catholics are on the ticket I will satisfy myself which is the better supporter of Mother Church and vote accordingly. That I will not deal with or employ a Protestant if in my power to deal with or employ a Catholic. That I will place Catholic girls in Protestant families that a weekly report may be made of the inner movements of the heretics. That I will provide myself with arms and ammunition that I may be in readiness when the word is passed, or I am commanded to defend the Church either as an individual or with the militia of the Pope. All of which I,_______________, do swear by the blessed Trinity and blessed sacrament which I am now to receive to perform and on part to keep this my oath. In testimony hereof, I take this most holy and blessed sacrament of the Eucharist and witness the same further with my name written with the point of this dagger dipped in my own blood and seal in the face of this holy sacrament.

(He receives the wafer from the Superior and writes his name with the point of his dagger dipped in his own blood taken from over his heart.)

(Superior speaks:)

You will now rise to your feet and I will instruct you in the Catechism necessary to make yourself known to any member of the Society of Jesus belonging to this rank. In the first place, you, as a Brother Jesuit, will with another mutually make the ordinary sign of the cross as any ordinary Roman Catholic would; then one crosses his wrists, the palms of his hands open, and the other in answer crosses his feet, one above the other; the first points with forefinger of the right hand to the centre of the palm of the left, the other with the forefinger of the left hand points to the centre of the palm of the right; the first then with his right hand makes a circle around his head, touching it; the other then with the forefinger of his left hand touches the left side of his body just below his heart; the first then with his right hand draws it across the throat of the other, and the latter then with a dagger down the stomach and abdomen of the first. The first then says Iustum; and the other answers Necar; the first Reges; the other answers Impious. The first will then present a small piece of paper folded in a peculiar manner, four times, which the other will cut longitudinally and on opening the name Jesu will be found written upon the head and arms of a cross three times. You will then give and receive with him the following questions and answers:

From whither do you come? Answer: The Holy faith.

Whom do you serve? Answer: The Holy Father at Rome, the Pope, and the Roman Catholic Church Universal throughout the world.

Who commands you? Answer: The Successor of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus or the Soldiers of Jesus Christ.

Who received you? Answer: A venerable man in white hair.

How? Answer: With a naked dagger, I kneeling upon the cross beneath the banners of the Pope and of our sacred order.

Did you take an oath? Answer: I did, to destroy heretics and their governments and rulers, and to spare neither age, nor sex, nor condition; to be as a corpse without any opinion or will of my own, but to implicitly obey my Superiors in all things without hesitation or murmuring.

Will you do that? Answer: I will.

How do you travel? Answer: In the bark of Peter the fisherman.

Whither do you travel? Answer: To the four quarters of the globe.

For what purpose? Answer: To obey the orders of my General and Superiors and execute the will of the Pope and faithfully fulfil the conditions of my oaths.

Go ye, then, into all the world and take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will not accept him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-Regent on earth, let him be accursed and exterminated.




Is this really true?
 
yes brother unfortunately it is true,it's even documented in the US Library of Congress but we should
have no fear cause these wicked men who kick against the pricks,infiltrate Protestant
Churches though they have crept in unawares their condemnation has been written Long Ago
 
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and others of the name of Protestant or Liberal

I have a question. Did they use the term Liberal as we do now days when this Oath would have been written? I know Machen used it. But how far back does the term Liberal go with the stigmatic rendering we attach to it. Just wondering.
 
The Catholic Answers Forum says that it is a hoax and a forgery:

You can rest assured that the “Jesuit Oath” you’re referring to is a complete fabrication with no basis in fact whatsoever. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia (see “Jesuit Apologetic” link below) this oath was the product of the imagination of the forger Robert Ware (mid to late 1600’s).

Here’s an excerpt from the Catholic Encyclopedia article “Impostors”:

"Robert Ware the forger, the author of "Foxes and Firebrands", who has of late years been so thoroughly exposed by Father Bridgett, traded upon the same prejudices. His more public career began contemporaneously with that of Oates in 1678, and by sheltering himself behind the high reputation of his dead father, Sir James Ware, amongst whose manuscripts he pretended to discover all kinds of compromising papers, he obtained currency for his forgeries, remaining almost undetected until modern times. Many foul aspersions upon the character of individual popes, Jesuits, and other Catholics, and also upon some Puritans, which have found their way into the pages of respectable historians, are due to the fabrications of "this literary skunk", as Fr. Bridgett not unjustifiably calls him (see Bridgett, "Blunders and Forgeries", pp. 209-296).

Some other vindictive and unprincipled scoundrels whose impostures for the most part took a literary form may also be mentioned here, though without any hope of exhausting the list. Foremost among them comes the Abbé Zahorowski, a Jesuit expelled from his order in which as a young scholastic he had been guilty of certain mean and discreditable tricks. In revenge for his expulsion he contrived to write and publish the notorious "Monita Secreta", which, as a code of secret instructions issued by authority, pretended to lay bare the shameless and Machiavellian policy followed by the Society of Jesus. That the "Monita Secreta" are a forgery is now universally admitted even by opponents, and since the publication of the memoirs of Father Wielewicki (Scriptores Rerum Polonicarum, vols. VII, X, XIV) no doubt remains that Zahorowski was the author (see Duhr, "Jesuitenfabeln" No. 5; Brou, "Les Jésuites de la Légende", I, 281).

Hardly less dear to the no-popery champion than the "Monita Secreta" is the fictitious "Hungarian Confession" or "Fluchformular". It is a profession of faith supposed to have been exacted of converts to the Church in Hungary (c. 1676), by which among other things they were required to declare that the pope ought to receive Divine honours, and that the Blessed Virgin ought to be held higher than Christ himself. The forgery seems to have been traced to the door of George Lani, an Evangelical minister, sent to the galleys for political intrigues against the Government in Hungary, who first published it in a work called "Captivitas Papistica". Whether it was his own fabrication is not, however, certain. He may possibly have adopted, seriously and in good faith, some satirical composition in circulation at the time (see Duhr, "Jesuitenfabeln", No. 7, and S. F. Smith in "The Month", July-August, 1896)."
 
Ian Paisley's article quotes Alberto Rivera as a reference who has been exposed as a fraud also. There is just too much hearsay on this topic for me to be convinced at this time. At the same time the Jesuits were a part of the Counter Reformation and Roman Catholic Idolaters and that is enough to brand them what they are. That is enough to expose them.
 
yes brother unfortunately it is true,it's even documented in the US Library of Congress

You seem very eager to believe anything regarding the Roman Catholic Church, no matter how exaggerated or silly. First, you insist that the Pope rides in a car with a beast-inspired license plate, and now you attempt to give credence to a clearly ludicrous piece of fiction being passed off as the Jesuit Oath.

Tell us, what other nonsense do you believe?
 
I have not read all of Loraine Boettner's "Roman Catholicism", but in excerpts I have seen, I seem to recall that the Council of Trent pronounced anathemas against all Protestants anyway, and the Roman Church has not formallly renounced them.

Is that true or false?
 
I have not read all of Loraine Boettner's "Roman Catholicism", but in excerpts I have seen, I seem to recall that the Council of Trent pronounced anathemas against all Protestants anyway, and the Roman Church has not formallly renounced them.

Is that true or false?

That is true.
 
American Jesuits are the bleeding heart liberals of the Catholic world. I don't know about Jesuits outside the US.
 
Ian Paisley's article quotes Alberto Rivera as a reference who has been exposed as a fraud also. There is just too much hearsay on this topic for me to be convinced at this time. At the same time the Jesuits were a part of the Counter Reformation and Roman Catholic Idolaters and that is enough to brand them what they are. That is enough to expose them.

yes the article does mention Alberto Rivera but it also give quotes predating Rivera including the specific record in the US Library of congress. I personnaly cannot confirm they are authentic but some of the sources seem credible. Even without the validation of the oaths, the recorded deeds of the Jesuit in the past few hundred years seem to go along with the theme of the oaths at the very least. I guess I'm not as willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the Roman Church as others on this board.

My only question is how does this work, if the Jesuit Order is supposed to follow the orders of the pope but the members of the Jesuit Order are supposed to answer to the black pope (General of the Order of the Jesuit) there seem to be a conflict of interest here.
 
yes brother unfortunately it is true,it's even documented in the US Library of Congress

You seem very eager to believe anything regarding the Roman Catholic Church, no matter how exaggerated or silly. First, you insist that the Pope rides in a car with a beast-inspired license plate, and now you attempt to give credence to a clearly ludicrous piece of fiction being passed off as the Jesuit Oath.

Tell us, what other nonsense do you believe?

Charity first please. :( Please remember, he is your dear brother in Christ.

I'm sure we all believe a lot of nonsense here and there. After all, the media pumps it out.
 
Charity first please. Please remember, he is your dear brother in Christ.

I'm sure we all believe a lot of nonsense here and there. After all, the media pumps it out.

Thank you -- you're right that I should have used more charity. I'll try again.


Robert,
There are plenty of real problems within the Roman Catholic Church, but we shouldn't make it out to be worse than it is by promoting rumors and falsehoods.
 
yes brother unfortunately it is true,it's even documented in the US Library of Congress

You seem very eager to believe anything regarding the Roman Catholic Church, no matter how exaggerated or silly. First, you insist that the Pope rides in a car with a beast-inspired license plate, and now you attempt to give credence to a clearly ludicrous piece of fiction being passed off as the Jesuit Oath.

Tell us, what other nonsense do you believe?

hey man chill, the number plate statement was a joke! D
there are many books written on the Jesuit Order that u can find for free on the web which will confirm this & also
the wickedness of this order, try Edmund Paris the secret history of the Jesuits . did u know that they have been
thrown out of over 100 countries due to their political intrigues,the kings of spain,portugal& france got so sick of
them at one stage that they got the pope of that time to disband & suppress the order,he was poisoned a sort time
later, dont forget that these were Roman catholic Monarchs? so who's giving credence to falsehood & ignorance
this goes to show that those oaths when worked out will even rattle the cage of catholics,or do u need more proof
I base my views on a historicist understanding of the book of revelation, since it teaches that the papacy & the
Rom Catholic church are the Anti-Christ ,scarlet harlot,mystery babylon & babylon the great ,as is the unanimous
concent of the reformed & protestant churches by their creeds,those you are meant to have mentioned that you
hold to as a condition of membership on this forum remember, as such if she be those abominable things just
mentioned then not withstanding she is making fornication with the kings & nations of this world ,so maintains
political control & financial control as babylon was the golden empire who's name she carries thereby declaring
she controls & manipulates the worlds economies, if you want a good
read i suggest you read Eric Phelp's Vatican Assassins also,j. wylies books on the papacy & jesuits also, Blaise
Pascals provincial letters, avro manhattans roman catholic writings, how about the jesuit conspiracy-the secret
plan of the order by the abbate leone,the secret instructions of the jesuits by w.c. brownlee,history of the jesuits by
nicolini plus the countless books written that refute the roman religion or do you still need more proof
 
Charity first please. Please remember, he is your dear brother in Christ.

I'm sure we all believe a lot of nonsense here and there. After all, the media pumps it out.

Thank you -- you're right that I should have used more charity. I'll try again.


Robert,
There are plenty of real problems within the Roman Catholic Church, but we shouldn't make it out to be worse than it is by promoting rumors and falsehoods.

the problem is that it is worse than it makes out as its basically an international pedophile & criminal syndicate
 
it's even documented in the US Library of Congress

You'll need to do better than that. There is a lot of fiction in the Library of Congress. Just because it is referenced in a book there doesn't make it true. Would you accept something as fact if I I said 'It is documented on the Google Books site'?

Folks, it is easy enough to attack Rome using the published and acknowledged works of that organization. Let's not weaken our argument by using questionable sources.
 
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