Étienne pasquier, the Jesuits' catechism or their doctrine examined (1602) / / Robert Aleksander Maryks, Jotham Parsons.

• Superior document: Jesuit Studies ; 33/1
• VerfasserIn: Maryks, Robert A.,; Parsons, Jotham,
• TeilnehmendeR: Parsons, Jotham,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Jesuit Studies ; 33/1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Étienne Pasquier (1529-1615) was a lawyer, royal official, man of letters, and historian. He represented the University of Paris in its 1565 suit to dislodge a Jesuit school from Paris. Despite royal support, the Jesuits remained in conflict with many institutions, which in 1595 expelled them from much of the realm. With ever-increasing polemics, Pasquier continued to oppose the Jesuits. To further his aims, he published a dialog between a Jesuit (almost certainly Louis Richeome) and a lawyer (Pasquier himself). He called it the Jesuits' Catechism (1602). Pasquier's work did not stop the French king from welcoming the Jesuits back. But Pasquier's Catechism remained central to Jansenist and other anti-Jesuit agitation up to the Society's 1773 suppression and beyond.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Historical Introduction -- Jotham Parsons -- Translator's Preface -- Patricia M. Ranum -- Glossary of Terms lxvi -- Étienne Pasquier The Jesuits' Catechism or Their Doctrine Examined -- Book I -- 1 Wherein a Gentleman Opens His Country House to a Group of Weary Travelers -- 2 The Plan of the Society of Jesus, Whom Ordinary Folks Call Jesuits -- 3 Censure of the Jesuit Sect by the Faculty of Theology of Paris in 1554 -- 4 How, When, and by What Artifices, the Jesuits Wormed Their Way into France -- 5 Decree of the Gallican Church against the Jesuits at the Colloquy Held at Poissy in 1561 -- 6 On the Request Presented to the Parlement by the Jesuits in 1564, to Matriculate at the University of Paris, and How Many Parties Butted Heads with Them -- 7 How the Jesuits Were Refused at the Very Beginning in Rome, and the Artifice Thanks to Which They Were Received -- 8 The Insolent Name of the Society of Jesus, Usurped by the Jesuits, and the Diverse Fashions They Expressed It, in Order to Get It Authorized -- 9 The Jesuits Are Called Apostles in Portugal and in the Indies, and the Deceit They Used -- 10 The Impieties of Guillaume Postel, Jesuit -- 11 The Studies of the Great Ignatius -- 12 When Ignatius and His Companions Presented Themselves before Pope Paul III, They Were True Charlatans, and the Titles They Used Were False -- 13 It Very Much Appears That the Approval Granted by Paul III to the Jesuit Sect Is Null and Void -- 14 First, the Management of Our Church by the Bishops; Second, the Ancient Religious Orders; Third, the Universities; and How the Jesuit Sect Is Built on the Ignorance of All This Antiquity -- 15 One Cannot Give a Place to the Jesuits in All the Three Ancient Orders of Our Church, and That Is Why They Do Not Dare Attend Processions -- 16 Without Wounding the Authority of the Holy See, One Can Truly Call the Jesuits Papelards, and Their Sect the Papelardie -- 17 On Ignatius of Loyola's Fabulous Visions, and on the Miraculous Fables of Francisco Xavier -- 18 On Ignatius's Machiavellisms, to Make His Sect Stylish -- 19 Closing Book I -- Book II -- 1 Our Gallican Church and the Jesuit Sect Are Incompatible -- 2 The Popes Who Authorized the Jesuits When They First Arrived, Never Believed That They Could or Should Reside in France -- 3 The Jesuits' Teaching of Humane Letters, Philosophy, and Theology to All Sorts of Scholars Is Contrary to Their First Institute; and Concerning the Progress and the Surprises They Used to Promote This New Tyranny, to the Detriment of the Ancient Discipline of the Universities -- 4 The Foundation of Jesuit Cheating Comes from the Instruction of Young People, and Why Our Ancients Did Not Want Young People to Be Taught Learning in Religious Orders -- 5 The Artifice by Which the Jesuits Enrich Themselves from the Castoff Possessions of Their Novices -- 6 The University of Paris Was Ruined by the Jesuit's Crafty Liberality When Teaching the Young.7 The Jesuit Sect Has Encountered Peter Abelard's Heresy on Several Occasions -- 8 Jesuits Claim the Right to Remove from Their College Children Who Are in the Guardianship of Their Fathers and Their Mothers, without Their Permission -- 9 Concerning the First Vow Made by the Jesuits, Which They Call the Simple Vow -- 10 One Cannot Excuse the Presence of Heresy and Machiavellism in the Jesuits' Simple Vow -- 11 How the Jesuits Engage the Authority of the Holy See in Order to Excuse the Heresy of Their Simple Vow -- 12 In Addition to the Heresy in the Simple Vow of the Jesuits, There Is Also Manifest Cheating -- 13 The Jesuit Provincials Authorize Themselves to Dismiss Their Inferiors of the Simple Vow, Just as Their General Does -- 14 How the Jesuit Fathers of the Great and Third Vow Mock God When They Vow to Be Beggars -- 15 The Jesuits' Vow of Chastity Contains Yet Another Heresy, and a Brief Discussion of the Title Fathers, Which the Jesuits of the Great Vow Call Themselves -- 16 About the Mission Vow, and How They Use It to Make Fun of Us All, Especially Our Holy Father the Pope -- 17 On the Blind Obedience That the Jesuits Have for the Pope, and Which They Are Disavowing Today in Their New Books -- 18 The Jesuits' Solution for Concealing the Impiety of Their Blind Obedience -- 19 About Ignatius's Wisdom and the New Jesuits' Silliness. A Conversation between the Jesuit and the Author of the Present Discourses -- Book III -- 1 On the Anabaptism in the Jesuits' Blind Obedience toward Their Superiors. And How, Owing to That, No King or Prince Can Protect Himself from Being Ambushed -- 2 On the Extraordinary Trial Conducted in the Low Countries against Robert Bruce, a Scotch Gentleman Who Had Been Denounced by Father William Crichton, Jesuit, for Being Unwilling to Carry Out the Assassination of the Chancellor of Scotland -- 3 On the Assassination That William Parry, Englishman, Urged On by the Jesuits, Wanted to Commit against Elizabeth, Queen of England, in 1584 -- 4 About Another Assassination Pursued in 1597 against the Queen of England by the Jesuits -- 5 The Jesuits Today Pretend to Disapprove of Their Heinous Doctrine Concerning the Murders of Princes and Rebellions against the State -- 6 The Prodigious History of the Detestable Parricide Attempted against King Henri IV, Most Christian King of France and Navarre, Incited by Jesuits -- 7 How Very Prejudicial to Our Church the Barbaric Impiety of the Jesuits Would Have Been, If Their Execrable Advice Had Had Its Effect -- 8 On the Assassination That Jean Châtel, Nurtured at the School of the Parisian Jesuits, Wanted to Attempt against the King in 1594 -- 9 It Is a Heresy to Approve of the Assassins of Princes, Even Though the Princes Were Tyrants -- 10 A Memorable Act by Ignatius, Where the Jesuits Learned to Kill, or to Have Killed, Those Who Do Not Adhere to Their Opinions -- 11 On the Holy League That the Jesuits Introduced into France in 1585, and How They Are the Cause of the Huguenots' Resurgence -- 12 The Auricular Confession of the Jesuits Has Been the Strongest Sword of the Rebellion, and How They Fence with It -- 13 On the General Congregation of the Jesuits, Held in Rome in 1593, Where They Were Forbidden to Become Involved in Affairs of State -- 14 Do Jesuits Have Spanish Souls, as Their Enemies Say They Do, or Do They Belong to the Highest Bidder? -- 15 The Jesuits Caused the Death of Mary, Queen of Scots: a Brief Discourse on the Ruin They Created for England.

16 The Jesuits Get Involved in the Affairs of State, and after They Have Troubled Kingdoms, Everything Turns Out the Opposite of What They Hope -- 17 The Pope Does Not Have the Power to Transfer the Kingdom of France from One Person to Another, to Counter the Dangerous Proposition of Jesuism, and Other Discussions on the Same Subject -- 18 Decree of the Parlement of Paris against the Jesuits in 1594, and a Chapter Excerpted from Book 3 of the Recherches de la France by Étienne Pasquier -- 19 By Covert Words, the Jesuits Claim That the Decree against Jean Châtel Was Unjust: and How God Permitted Him to Be Punished in Order to Make the Jesuits' Punishment More Exemplary for Posterity -- 20 Concerning the Pyramid Built in Front of the Palais of Paris, and the Decree Issued in Rome by the Magnificent Pasquin about the Reestablishment Being Sought by the Jesuits -- 21 On the Division That Seems to Exist between the Parlements of France Concerning the Jesuits, and How That Division Can Be Handled -- 22 How the Order of the Umiliati Was Suppressed by a Decree from Rome, and Why There Are More Arguments for Suppressing the Jesuits than the Umiliati -- 23 The Jesuits' Impudence in Order to Protect Themselves from the Decree of the Consistory of Rome, Issued against the Order of the Umiliati -- 24 The Jesuit Sect Is No Less Prejudicial to Our Church than the Lutheran Sect Is -- 25 Concerning the Noteworthy Undertaking of the Superior General of the Jesuits against the Holy See of Rome, and That There Is No New Sect That Eventually Can Be as Prejudicial to It -- 26 One Must Not Make It a Practice to Believe Our Jesuits' Promises, Because There Is No Faith and Law in Them, beyond the Faith and the Law That Depend on the Convenience of Their Affairs -- 27 Conclusion to the Third Book, about the Reestablishment of the Jesuits Who Had Been Chased Out -- 28 On the Schism Recently Introduced by the Jesuits into the Catholic Church of England, Scorning the Authority of the Holy See, a Tragic Story That Is Full of Compassion and Pity -- Index.