The Irish standard., 1893-02-04
IRE JEsUITs DEFENDED.


TIRE JESUITS DEFENDED.
While onr esteemed contemporary, the
Catholic Sentinel, of Portland. Ore, is
defending the Jesuits from the unjusti-
fable and un-C Catholic apimadversions of
the Western WatchmaD, it's namesake at
Chippewa Falls, Wis, is playing second
fiddle 20 it's st. Louis contemporary in it's
antagonism to the Society Of Jesus. The
lay editor Of the Badger paper has taken
up his shillalah against the Jesuits in be.
half of Archbishop Ireland, and this is
how he writes of the followers of st.
Ignatius Loyola:
'The Jesuits have earned an unenvi-
able reputation for low cunning wherever
they have been allowed to rest the soles
of their feet. Right Or wrong, they have
been time and again charged with plot
ting against kings, princes, ecclesiastics
and even Popes. They are now charged
with trying their old time tactics against
Archbishop Ireland. Before they under
take to meddle with his grace, they had
better calculate the consequences. It
any harm comcs to him through their iu-
trigues we speak within bounds when
we say that there would not be ten live
Jesuits in these United States in twenty
four hours after the matter should be-
come known. His grace of St. Paul, be-
sides the great body of Catholics who
adore min, has one million veteran SOL
diers at his back, ready to avenge any in
suit or wrong done to him, through the
Vaccinations of any intriguing, quib-
bling, word twisting equivocators either
here or in Europe"
Had such language as this come from
Protestant paper we would treat it
with contemptuous silence and attribute
it to religious bigotry. but proceeding
from champion of Catholic orthodoxy
in SO called Catholic paper, we protest
with all the vehemence of our Catholic
nature against such Incorporate, injn
dicious and unfounded accusations
against the greatest religious order in
the Catholic Church. Does the Chippewa
Falls editor imagine for one moment that
Archbishop Ireland endorses such senti-
ments as he gives utterance to? Does he
imagine that the ST. Paul prelate has any
desire for such advocacy? The Catholic
journalist who writes of the foremost re-
ligious order in the Church in such dis
respectful manner is destitute of Catho-
lie instincts, ard is merely wolf in rams
clothing, or vice versa. He must have
acquired his information of the Jesuits
from anti Catholic sources, or imbibed
his preiudices against them from reading
the article in the Encyclopedia Britain
MICA. The bitterest enemies of the Jes-
uits have never accused them of Glow
cunning" They have been traduced,
vilifed and prosecuted like their Divine
Master whose name they bear and whose
example they follow, because of their
great zeal, learning and skill in promot-
ing true Christian civilization all over
the earth. Their Protestant opponents
have called them deceitfu}, cunning and
hypocritical, and have made their name
Synonymous with everything crafty and
intriguing, because they are men OF OK
alted intellectual endowments and liter
ary and scientific attainmepts whom
they are unable to meet in the arena of
disputation. No set of men on the face
of the globe have been more unjustly
abused than the Jesuits. 1T is the fate
of every mortal and every society that
raise themselves by mother wit and SUI
perior accomplishments above the COM
mon level of ounces and fools to be hated
and maligned by the whole tribe most
cordially, and so it has been from the be-
ginning with these noble men of God.
Protestants of educated minds and
liberal ideas, however, have given credit
to the Jesuits for the great work they have
accomplished in literature and as mission
aries in every country under the sun.
They have never been accused OF crimes
against church or state of which their
Divine Master had not been accused dur
ing His earthly pilgrimage. Like Him
they have been prosecuted, and like Him
they have been always guiltless. As q
body, their bitterest enemies have never
accused them of either heterodoxy or i'm
morality. They have always been obedient
and faithful to the Holy See, and when
the Pope has spoken in bis official capac-
ity they have submitted to his decisions.
Even when their order was suppressed
by Pope who owed his cardinals hat to
the Jesuits, they meekly bowed in sub
mission. They had influential friends in
the Church who would espsuse their
cause, but they preferred to bear their
humiliation patiently in imitation OF
Christ.
The instinct by which the Jesuits have
always detected false doctrine is some
thing bordering on the supernatural.