page_title: Dominus ac Redemptor
section_title: Content
hierarchical_section_title: Dominus ac Redemptor / Content
caption_attribution_description: The brief 'Dominus ac Redemptor' by which pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus (1773) (opening page in French and Latin)
context_page_description: Dominus ac Redemptor is the papal brief promulgated on 21 July 1773 by which Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus. The Society was restored in 1814 by Pius VII.
context_section_description: The document is forty-five paragraphs long.
  In the introductory paragraph Clement XIV gives the tone: Our Lord has come on earth as "Prince of peace". This mission of peace, transmitted to the apostles is a duty of the successors of Saint Peter, a responsibility the pope fulfils by encouraging institutions fostering peace and removing, if need be, others that impede peace. Not just if guilty, even on the broader ground of harmony and tranquillity in the Church, it may be justified to suppress a religious order. He mentions as precedence, Pius V's suppression of the Humiliati in 1571, Urban VIII's elimination of the Regular Order of Sts. Ambrose and Barnabas at the Grove, and Innocent X's suppression of the Order of St. Basil of Armenia.  
  What follows is a long section in which Clement XIV reviews the reasons which, in his judgment, are calling for the extinction of the Society of Jesus.
  A long list of charges against the Society is enumerated.
  He recalls that, in its history, the Society encountered severe criticism.
  The distress occasioned to earlier popes by clashes among Catholics with regard to Jesuit doctrine is evoked.
  In a final, more technical section Clement XIV pronounces the actual sentence of suppression of the Society of Jesus. Some provisions are dictated for the implementation of the brief.
  In effect, the brief suppresses the Society without condemning it.
caption: The opening page of Dominus ac Redemptor in French and Latin
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