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Bring Back the Jesuits
By John
A HARDLINE Somalian cleric has called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill Pope Benedict for his controversial comments about Islam.And an Iraqi armed group has threatened to carry out attacks against Rome and the Vatican.
Somali Sheik Abubukar Hassan Malin urged Muslims to find the Pope and punish him for insulting the prophet Mohammed and Allah.
An excellent response to the contention that violence and religion are incompatible. Perhaps it's time that the Catholic Order of Jesus, the Jesuits, get back to their Navy SEAL roots:
Regimini militantis ecclesiae (“On the Supremacy of the Church Militant”) was the papal bull promulgated by Pope Paul III on September 27, 1540, which gave final approval to the formation of the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members to sixty, who swiftly acclaimed Ignatius as their general, against his opposition, and solemnly pledged him absolute obedience, recognized him as "holding the place of God" in relation to them.
Catholic Encyclopedia --
[Ignatius'] early plan was the conversion of Mohammedans, an idea which, a few decades after the final triumph of the Christians over the Moors in Spain, must have strongly appealed to the chivalrous Spaniard. The name "Societas Jesu" had been born by a military order approved and recommended by Pius II in 1450, the purpose of which was to fight against the Turks and aid in spreading the Christian faith. The early Jesuits were sent by Ignatius first to pagan lands or to Catholic countries; to Protestant countries only at the special request of the pope and to Germany, the cradle-land of the Reformation, at the urgent solicitation of the imperial ambassador.
While Catholicism grew out of "conversion by the sword" centuries ago (Islam take note), I see no problem in the Vatican getting medieval on some Islamofascists when their own safety is in jeopardy.
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Better yet, the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Jesus Chirst and Temple of Solomon.
Relations between BXVI and the Society of Jesus are a little rocky. The Jesuits are one fo the most "liberal" of current Catholic orders.
Mike
I vote with nerf.
oooo yeah.
Knights Templar right?
We're gonna start a fourth crusade here....
nobody expects the Jesuits!
Actually I was going to laud a new militia, but it has already been done by better then I. (see here)
Knights Templar sound good. Let's drop them out of a C-17 into bad guy hang outs.
Let me put in a plug for the Sienkiewicz epic trilogy about the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century. It's very long, but he knows how to tell a damn good story, and the similarities between Poland then and the USA today are striking and disquieting. The reason why I bring the books up here is that they're a vivid and inspiring reminder that Christianity and the military spirit are, in European history, so closely fused as to be inseparable. Benedict spoke of faith and reason, but he forgot the third leg of our civilization. War.
As I've admitted here more than once, I'm a civilian, but I have no illusions about what has made my peacable existence possible. I feel sorry for the younger generations: they're going to see some fighting.
What´s wrong with a good, old and reliable W80?
Tenth Crusade.
I'll sign up for the Templars, if they allow married men this time.
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The Jesuits might have lost the bubble. Re-militarize the Knights of St John!!