Become a Jesuit. Support Us. Support Our Work Menu. Jesuits Only. Conversations that Matter. Jesuit Conference of Canada and the U. Privacy Policy. All Rights Reserved. Where does the name Jesuit come from? What are the vows that Jesuits take? What is the fourth vow? Poverty, Chastity and Obedience. The fourth vow is of obedience to the Pope with regard to mission. What is the formula for the four solemn vows that Jesuits take? I, name , make my profession, and I promise to Almighty God, in the presence of his Virgin Mother, the whole heavenly court, and all those here present and to you , Reverend Father Provincial, Rector, etc.
I further promise a special obedience to the Sovereign Pontiff in regard to the missions according to the same apostolic letters and Constitutions. Do Jesuits have a formal habit identifying clothing? This Utopia was suddenly crushed by the influential slave traders who were able to intimidate the Spanish crown into destroying the settlements. King Charles III expelled the Jesuits in when Paraguay boasted of 57 settlements serving , indigenous natives.
These Jesuit Settlements were called "a triumph of humanity which seems to expiate the cruelties of the first conquerors" by Voltaire - hardly a friend of the Jesuits. The history of Latin America would have been quite different if this form of settlement had been allowed to develop according to its own momentum, offering democracy a century before North America.
Jesuit Andrea Pozzo's Ceiling in St. Ignatius Church in Rome Jesuits were called the schoolmasters of Europe during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, not only because of their schools but also for their pre-eminence as scholars scientists and the thousands of textbooks they composed. During their first two centuries the Jesuits were involved in an explosion of intellectual activity, and were engaged in over schools. The expulsion of the Jesuits from France Then suddenly these were all lost in This religious Society of 23, men dedicated to the service of the church was disbanded.
The property of the Society's many schools was either sold or made over into a state controlled system. The Society's libraries were broken up and the books either burned, sold or snatched up by those who collaborated in the Suppression.
As if unsure of himself the Pope promulgated the brief of suppression in an unusual manner which caused perplexing canonical difficulties. So when Catherine, Empress of Russia, rejected the brief outright and forbade its promulgation, Jesuits continued to function in Russia. That Jesuits take their special vow of obedience to the pope quite seriously is evident from their immediate compliance with distasteful papal edicts.
Clement XIV's Suppression is one example. Another occurred earlier in when Pope Sixtus V wanted to exclude Jesus from the official name of the Society. Jesuits immediately complied and offered alternate names but Sixtus died unexpectedly before his wish could be carried out. Included among these occasional papal intrusions in the Society's governance was Pope John Paul II's appointment of a delegate to govern the Society during Superior General Arrupe's illness.
So edified was he at the Society's immediate compliance that the pope later lavished extraordinary praise on the Jesuit Order. Although many of the men had died by then, the memory of their educational triumphs had not, and the new Society was flooded with requests to take over new colleges: in France alone, for instance, 86 schools were offered to the Jesuits. Since the Society has experienced amazing growth and has since then surpassed the apostolic breadth of the early Society in its educational, intellectual, pastoral and missionary endeavors.
As for education, today there is an extensive worldwide network of Jesuit schools educating one and a half million students. There are 90 Jesuit colleges in 27 countries.
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