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Society of JesusOfficial name of the Roman Catholic order commonly known as the Jesuits. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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of the Jesuit order, a Catholic priest who devoted his life to spreading God's love. As a result, the papacy was pressured by Catholic monarchs into dissolving the Jesuit order in 1773 only to restore it in 1814 after the demise of Napoleon. As Wright races through five hundred years of history, fitting in or drawing out Jesuit contributions on all continents, any idea that either the Church or the Jesuit Order could be described as monolithic evaporates. |
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