This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... note D. "infallible" morals. The most important text-book used at Holy Cross College, in Worcester, Mass., and other Papal institutions among us, is " Elementa Philosophise Moralis," by R. P. L. Jouin, S.J., Professor in St. John's College, New York. Its author had the fortune (good or bad) to be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... note D. "infallible" morals. The most important text-book used at Holy Cross College, in Worcester, Mass., and other Papal institutions among us, is " Elementa Philosophise Moralis," by R. P. L. Jouin, S.J., Professor in St. John's College, New York. Its author had the fortune (good or bad) to be educated in a society which has had the misfortune to make the holy name of Jesus expressive (as our standard dictionaries say) of what is "crafty, artful, and deceitful." This reputation is partly unjust. Ever since Loyola breathed the pestilential atmosphere of Rome, the society which he founded has been the pack-mule, the cat's-paw, and the scape-goat of the papal conspiracy against true religion and the divinely ordained principles of political authority and justice which God has put into society. With a heroism worthy of better masters than the popes and their cardinals, the Jesuits enlist "to fight under the standard of the cross and of God and our Lord Jesus Christ, and to serve the church his spouse under his Vicar the Roman pontiff, by teaching Christian doctrine and Christian life, by explaining the Word of God, by teaching catechism to the young and ignorant, and by the administration of the sacraments, especially of the Sacrament of Penance." If they would rightly understand this last word the Sacrament of Repentance, they would restore true religion to the papal world, and justify their noble motto. Every member of the Order is bound not only by almost adamantine fetters of "obedience" and dependent "poverty," but by much more powerful chains than these, which, by a long and severe course of training, have been elaborately riveted about and through every element of his spiritual nature and the holiest aspirations of his soul. He is...
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