Semitic Controversies A Daily Blog about…search Classic Flipcard Magazine Mosaic Sidebar Snapshot Timeslide Jews, Crime and Corru… The Stages of Kvetching The Origins of the Germ… Eusebius of Emesa on t… Jews, Crime and Corru… Saint Ignatius Loyola a… Holocaust Survivor Stor… Hoax Alert: Echo Lake … Bram Stoker: Racial Nat… Creeping Halakhah Jews, Crime and Corru… The Baseler Rav on Je… Holocaust Survivor Stor… Lou Pearlman: Jew, Fra… Saint Ignatius Loyola and the Jews Accusations of both antiSemitism (1) and philoSemitism (2) have been made against the Jesuit order. So in order to understand the truth of these charges it is best to start with the founder of Society of Jesus: Saint Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius' commentary on jews and Judaism was remarkably restrained for his time in so far as to be completely opposed to the prevailing Catholic theology of the day. Instead of condemning the jews outright as enemies of the Catholic faith as his Spanish followers (and it was worth remembering that Ignatius himself was Spanish and had been a soldier until his legs were crippled by a cannonball during his participation in the defence of a Spanish fortress so as such had probably originally held to common Spanish theological ideas or at least given lipservice to them) urged him to. (3) He welcomed the jews (both converts and 'New Christians' [aka Marranos/Conversos]) into the Jesuit order and made a point of actively recruiting them. (4) Nothing speaks more of this weird desire than the fact that Loyola and his early companions spared no expense or effort to get the sentences (including and not limited to those of death) of convicted jewish criminals commuted if they expressed a desire to, or interest in, converting to Christianity and joining the Jesuit order. (5) Similarly in March 1542 Ignatius obtained a Papal Brief, ‘Cupientes Judaeos’, from Pope Paul III which prohibited jewish friends and relatives of sincere converts to Christianity from disinheriting or cutting them off from financial support (as per the normal jewish custom of sitting Shiva for apostates and treating them as if they were dead), which had heretofore been cited as a serious obstacle to the conversion of the jews to Christianity. (6) This further lead Ignatius to purchase two houses in Rome for jewish and Islamic catechumens: one for men and the other for women. (7) Within a year Ignatius had converted some forty former jews and Muslims to Christianity. (8) Hoax Alert: The Haverto… Jews and the Burkini Hoax Alert: Lakewood Y… Jews, Crime and Corru… The Jewish War on Fre… AntiSemitism and the B… Was Magda Goebbels J… We know of two specific examples of Ignatius’ conversions of jews; these are the conversion of a jew (and subsequent marriage to his Italian mistress) in September 1541 (9) and a jewish father and his two sons on 22nd July 1556. (10) All this naturally resulted in the fact that from early on a significant number of the members of the Jesuit order were converts from Judaism or from 'New Christian' families. (11) The most prominent of which was Diego Lainez; the first prominent Jesuit theologian, successor to Ignatius and architect of the structure of the society as we know it today. (12) This is hardly surprising when Ignatius himself went on record as stating that he desired to be of jewish origin so (ala Luther's argument in 'That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew') that he could be closer to Jesus, his ‘Lord and Master’, by sharing the same ancestral origin (which absolutely horrified his Spanish listeners). (13) if unorthodox for the time. Crime and Corru… The Origins of the Germ… The Jewish War on Fre… Eusebius of Emesa on t… The Crucifixion of Christ… Jews. 1991. 189190 (4) Ibid. 1st Edition.. who refused to let the Jesuits operate in his ecclesiastical jurisdiction unless they enforced limpieza de sangre (‘blood purity’) among its members. 1st Edition. (15) Ignatius refused point blank to do this. 1993. Much like many modern Evangelical Christians Loyola sacrificed his prudence upon the altar of the deluded fantasy that the jews were the original people of God. Loyola can thus be reasonably asserted to have been a philoSemite who believed the salvation of the jews was paramount possibly even over and above nonjews attaining salvation. Fra… The Jewish War on Fre… Hoax Alert: The Haverto… The Jews behind Salon… Jews and the Burkini Was Perkin Warbeck Je… Hoax Alert: Lakewood Y… Creeping Halakhah Jews. which has led to his being praised for being ‘most charitable’ among the ‘antiSemitic climate of the sixteenth century’ even if he was still ‘immersed in the prejudices and misapprehensions of the age’ by modern historians. pp. 1930. religious convictions. 1974. 180181 (3) John O'Malley S. which would have given him a blood relationship with his “Lord and Master. He also sought to ape Jesus and convert the proverbial Pharisees from the darkness of Judaism by his example and preaching of the one true faith. He sought material links to Jesus in the perceived jewishness of the latter much as many others before and afterwards sought a link to a purer form of holiness via the medium of relics. Thus we can see that while Loyola certainly committed a grave error in seeking to bring jewish converts to Christianity into the Society of Jesus: he did so based on sincere. pp.Corporation of the Wee… Indeed Ignatius even claimed that converted jews were better Christians than their search Semitic Controversies A Daily Blog about… nonjewish brethren! (14) Ambrose Bierce and th… Classic Flipcard Magazine Mosaic Sidebar Snapshot Timeslide This philoSemitic attitude caused Ignatius and the Society of Jesus a significant amount of problems in its formative years with brutal opposition to its ‘enlightened’ Yes. References (1) For example Charlotte Klein. Crime and Corru… policies coming from the powerful Spanish and Portuguese churches. 'Damascus to Kiev: Civilta Cattolica on Ritual Murder'. 'The Power and Secret of the Jesuits'. Crime and Corru… The Jewish War on Pok… The Jewish War on Fre… Sir Phillip Green: Corru… AntiSemitism and the B… Jews. 'The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in AntiSemitic Folklore'. 'The First Jesuits'. Gawker’s Nick Den… Jews. the Archbishop of Toledo. from the time of his conversion had regretted that he had not been born a Jew.”’ (17) Caraman’s characterisation of Loyola’s countercultural theological views also gives us the key to understanding his views on this subject. Crime and Corru… Jews and proIsrael Lo… The Baseler Rav on Je… Remarkable Holocaust … Holocaust Survivor Stor… Jews. (16) As the Jesuit historian Philip Caraman describes it: ‘Ignatius. Harvard University Press: Cambridge. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison (2) For example Rene FulopMiller. pp. pp.). Crime and Corru… Lou Pearlman: Jew.J. Viking: New York. Stupid Stuff Jews Say The Stages of Kvetching Jews. Crime and Corru… Is Vladimir Putin Jewish? 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Collins: London. pp. 133 Joseph Pearce’s Journ… Corporation of the Wee… Semitic Controversies The Crucifixion of Christ… Jews. 134 Yes. Op. p. 133 Jews. Gawker’s Nick Den… Jews. Cit. Cit. Cit. New Christian. Cit. p. 139 (10) Ibid.. Roman Catholic Church. Cit. p. 212 Classic Flipcard Magazine Mosaic (7) Ibid.0. 1st Edition. Sidebar Snapshot Timeslide Creeping Halakhah (8) Caraman. Fra… The Jewish War on Fre… Hoax Alert: The Haverto… The Jews behind Salon… Jews and the Burkini Was Perkin Warbeck Je… Hoax Alert: Lakewood Y… Creeping Halakhah Jews. Op. Marrano. p. 294 The Stages of Kvetching (12) Ibid. Crime and Corru… The Origins of the Germ… (14) O’Malley. p. Muslims. Crime and Corru… Lou Pearlman: Jew.. Cupientes Judaeos. Crime and Corru… (9) Ibid....