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According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," this group says they will lend their Aston-Martin to the pope [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 27].

Hamish Runcet makes a prediction that a Jesuit Air Force will strafe and bomb world centers of atheism [St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 104].


The Society of Jesus is a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church whose members are called Jesuits. Founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, today the society numbers about 23,800 members; in the United States, where there were approximately 4,500 Jesuits in 1992, there are many Jesuit schools and colleges (e.g., Georgetown, Fordham, and St. Louis universities.

The reputation of the Jesuits (based on historical fact, although now pretty much out of date) is that, as a matter of policy, they focused their attention on the ruling classes, says Bowen. "When the order was founded during the counter-Reformation, the original Jesuits were engaged in a struggle over who would control the religious destiny of Europe, and the key to that, as they saw it, was gaining influence over Europe's rulers. As time went on and royalty began to lose some of its absolute authority, the Jesuits broadened their scope to include other influential groups, founding colleges in France, for example, to educate the sons of the middle class. They founded several universities in this country and until after World War II a university education was mainly something for the well off, so it isn't surprising that the Jesuits in this country too were sometimes thought of as an order strongly attracted to power and money. Thus they, of all religious orders, might be thought to possess an expensive car like an Aston-Martin."

 
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