the fathers were among the executed.

In Paraguay the Jesuits instigated the natives to rebel against Spain and
Portugal; and the holy fathers, taking the field in person, proved
themselves excellent leaders.

Pope Clement XIV was poisoned by the Jesuits. He had signed a Bull to
suppress the order, which Bull was to "be forever and to all eternity
valid." The result of it was "acqua tofana of Perugia," a slow and
torturing poison.

Down to our own times we have had the hand of the Society of Jesus gently
urging the Fenians. O'Farrell, who in 1868 attempted the life of the Duke
of Edinburgh in Australia, was a Jesuit sent out to the care of the
society in Australia.

The great days of Jesuitism are gone but the society still lives. In
England and in other Protestant countries they continue to exist under
different names. The "Adorers of Jesus," the Redemptionists, the Brothers
of the Christian Doctrine, the Brothers of the Congregation of the Holy
Virgin, the Fathers of the Faith, the Order of St. Vincent de Paul--are
Jesuits. How far they belong to the heart and not to the head, is a
detail only known to themselves. Those who have followed the contemporary
history of France may draw their own conclusions from the trials of the
case of the Assumptionist Fathers.

"Los mismos perros, con nuevos cuellos"--said Sarrion to any who sought
to convince him that Spain owed her downfall to other causes, and that
the Jesuits were no longer what they had been. "The same dogs with new
collars." And he held that they were not a progressive but a
retrogressive society; that their statutes still held good.

"It is allowable to take an oath without intending to keep it when one
has good grounds for so acting."

"In the case of one unjustifiably making an attack on your honour, when
you cannot otherwise defend yourself than by impeaching the integrity of
the person insulting you, it is quite allowable to do so."

"In order to cut short calumny most quickly, one may cause the death of
the calumniator, but as secretly as possible to avoid observation."

"It is absolutely allowable to kill a man whenever the general welfare or
proper security demands it."

If any man has committed a crime, St. Liguori and other Jesuit writers
hold that he may swear to a civil authority that he is innocent of it
provided that he has already confessed it to his spiritual father and
received absolution. It is, they say, no longer on his conscience