Preface

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A GLIMPSE
OF THE
GREAT SECRET SOCIETY,
: CERTE NON APERTI, NON SIMPLICES, NON INGENUI .... VERSUTI POTIUS, ASTUTI, FALLACES, MALITIOSI, CALLIDI, VETEEATORES, VAFRI."
Cicero.
" BY WHOSE AID ASPIRING
TO SET HIMSELF IN GLORY 'BOVE HIS PEERS, HE TRUSTED TO HAVE EQUALLED THE MOST HIGH."
MILTON, PcvraMse Lost, I. 38 — 40.
THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND NOTES.
LONDON:
WILLIAM MACINTOSH,
24, PATERNOSTER Row.
1872.
TABLE OF CONTENTS,
WITH A
LIST OF AUTHORITIES
FOB THE
STATEMENTS MADE IN THE INTRODUCTION.
PAGE
Preface to the Third Edition
Jesuit Influence and the Franco-German War ; the Dogma . xiii
Quirinus ; Father Beckx ; the power behind the Papal Throne . xiv
The Empress Eugenie — " Ma guerre." Confessors . . xv
The Article in the Monde. Results of the War xv
The Oiieanists. Louis Philippe. The Church and the Parisians xvii
An undying hatred. Spain and Amadeus . . . xviii
German distrust of the Papal party. Education . . . xix
Prussia curbs Ultramontanism. The Cultus xx
Dollinger, the champion of religious freedom in South Germany . xxi
Romanism in the United States. New York. Scripture teaching
paralyzed ... .... xxii
New York Roman Catholic Schools. Religious equality. Riband- men. Fruits ....... xxiii
Manning's remarks relative to the Roman Catholic conquest of
England. His justification of Anselm, a Becket, Jesuit
morality, of the Gunpowder Plot, and of treason, etc.
Popish designs upon England .... xxiv
Jesuitism and Papal Infallibility. The Curia. Antonelli . xxvii
Despotic nature of the Jesuit and Papal systems. Archbishop
Darboy's speech hostile to the Dogma . . xxviii
Fate of the three last Archbishops of Paris, (note) . . xxix
Infallibility and Canon Law. Bishop Strossmeyer. Montalem-
bert's letter. Archbishop Sibour on the double idolatry . xxx Rome, the Church and the People. The Four Articles of the
Gallican Church ...... xxxiii
Dr. Dollinger's celebrated Letter upon the incompatibility of the
Dogma with freedom . , . . xxxiv
The Order and the Papacy, Infallible, not immortal. " Janus."
Forgeries — the Isidorian Decretals. Canon of Sardica.
Donations . . . xxxvi
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Father Oratry. Pope Honorius a heretic. Gratry's letter to Archbishop of Malins. Frauds. Duplicity. Father Reguon on the Forgeries • • XXXV111
Dominus ac Redemptor, or Brief of Clement XIV. for the effec- tual Suppression of the Jesuit Order, 17?;3. Premature death of Scxtus V. ... ^
Restoration of the Order, under Gregory XIV. xli
Internal scandals. Expulsion of the Jesuits from France, Spain,
and from other coiuitries. Suspicious death of Clement XIII. xliii Grounds for the suppression of the Jesuits. Property confiscated,
offices annulled. The extinction of the Order xliv
Clerics to join other Orders. The Brief to be strictly enforced ; to
all eternity valid . .
Jesuit statistics. Condemnation of the Order by the Dogma xlvi
Pope Ganganelli calumniated, Real character of Clement XIV. xlvii
Infallibility exemplified, or the Bulls of 1773 and 1814. Pius VH.
and Ids "exper ienced rowers" .... xlviii
His Holiness' salutary fear of the Jesuits. Voltaire. Sudden
death . ... xlix
Cardinal Bellarmine. Sudden death of Clement XIII. The
death warrant . . . 1
Pope Gaugauelli poisoned: the post-mortem. The nuns' Acqua
Tofana ..... . li
To whom the poisoning of Clement XIV. is due. Motives
of Pius VII. . . lii
Brief of Pius IX. for the restoration of the Order. Reciprocal aid liii
" Quirinus." Excitement in the camp. The Redemptionists . Iv
The Gesu. Relation of the Jesuits to the other Orders . Ivi
The Urini and Thummini. Mutual exaltation. Immunity . Ivii
Under the cloak of infallibility. An awakening . . . Iviii
Training of O'Farrell, the assassin. Henry IV. of France. Attempted murder of the French and Russian Emperors. H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh lix
The Secret Society and Fenianism. Hatred of England. Joly, the Jesuit historian. College at Stony hurst. Fathers Callaghan and Betah . . . Ix
College training of Irish students. Clongowes . . Ixii
Carlow Magazine. Incitements to crime . . Ixiii
Irish abuse of British statesmen. The Society's teaching. Mass and blessing for O'Farrell, the dupe of the Jesuits Ixiv
Connection of the present with the past Ixvii
Charles Sauvestre upon the Jesuit policy. Vitality and hatred. When to strike. Progress. Suppression, 1792. Rapid de- velopment, 1872. Leibnitz, or influence acquired by the guides of education. Questions to guardians . • . Ixviii