Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity
If ever any Congregation of Men could merit eternal Perdition on Earth and in Hell, it is the company of Loyola.
− John Adams, writing to Thomas Jefferson, in 1816
The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood.
− Edmund Campion, S.J., in 1581, shortly before being hanged, drawn and quartered
SOME of their critics have consigned them, in holy outrage, to the lower regions of hell. Some of their defenders, with equally fervent conviction, see them as saints destined for the higher reaches of heaven. Whatever their presumed...
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