Butch opened this issue on Feb 05, 2004 ยท 59 posts
pdxjims posted Thu, 05 February 2004 at 8:07 PM
Actually, the head of the Jesuits is called the "Black Pope", even within the church (usually by non-Jesuit clergy). The society was founded to counter the Protestant reformation. It was designed to be the Pope's personal legion of faith against Protestant heresy. The Jesuits have a reputation for being the best educated and brightest of all the Roman clergy (although a few Benedictines I know would disagree). Most of the stuff in the comment with the image (which in itself is very good), is a combination of anti catholic propoganda from the time of the reformation all the way to the KKK's anti catholic rants in the 1920's. A bit of it even has smidgen of truth. Pacelli did support the Axis prior to WWII. He negotiated the concord between Mussolini and the church in the 1930's that established the Vatican State (he was the Vatican Secretary of State at the time). There's a lot the Church has done, and continues to do that is very harmful, but most of his commentary doesn't hold water. As for censoring his comments? No way. Comments really should be on the Art, since this is a site to support artists. His art is pretty darn good. His history is pretty darn bad.