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John Adams and the Jesuits James Martin, S.J. March 31, 2008 As you may have discerned from Matt Malone’s posts, a few of us at America are besotted with John Adams: the second president, that ...
We can see them now. Two of the men most responsible for the birth of the nation, both former presidents — John Adams is 81 and Thomas Jefferson is 73 — exchanging letters in 1816, fiercely ...
In 1814 John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson that he was unhappy with the Restoration of the Society of Jesus. Read today, the expression is surprising. One of the fruits of the revolution was ...
So who are the Jesuits? And what makes them distinctive? Soldier to saint. In 1521, the Basque nobleman Iñigo López – known to history as St. Ignatius of Loyola – was seriously wounded in a ...
"I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits," John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1816. "Shall we not have swarms of them here, in as many shapes and disguises as ever a king of Gypsies." ...
The Jesuits are among the Catholic Church’s most influential religious orders but ... Founding Father John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1816 that the order deserved “eternal ...
The young American ambassador to Tsar Alexander, John Quincy Adams, whose father would greet the final restoration of the Society with trepidation, met twice with the Jesuit General in St ...