A Squandered Patrimony
A link to a short article on Jesuit higher education to be read with a grain of salt.
Saint Joseph Pignatelli – A patron saint of vocations
Saint Joseph Pignatelli – A patron saint of vocations. Voltaire the ideologue of the French Revolution said: “Once that we have destroyed the Jesuits, then we will have an open line of attack against the Infamous Thing”. “The Infamous Thing” of course was the whole Church. The order of St. Ignatius seemed then to be the most formidable bastion of Catholic principles. The masons considered the Society of Jesus as the light cavalry of the Church. In 1767 the masons pushed European rulers to expel the Jesuits from their countries. King Charles III of Spain gave into the Masonic demands and expelled the Jesuits from Spain and her colonies. Four years before the Young Joseph Pignatelli was ordained a Jesuit priest in his native Zaragoza Spain. The Pignatellis were a noble family of Naples Italy. So when Pope Clement XIV, a conventual Franciscan, suppressed the Society of Jesus by the bull Dominus ac Redemptor of the 21 July 1773 Joseph went to liv...
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