“If the public cause cannot meet with its defence in the death of a tyrant, it is lawful for the first who arrives, to assassinate him.”—Suarez, Defensio Fidei; Book VI., chap. 4, Nos. 13-14.
“See, sir, from this chamber, I govern, not only to Paris, but to China; not only to China, but to all the world, without any one knowing how I do it.”—Tambriorini, General of the Jesuits.
“A man who has been excommunicated by the Pope, may be killed anywhere, as Escobar and Deaux teach, because the Pope has an indirect jurisdiction over the whole world, even in temporal things, as all the Catholics maintain, and as Suarez proves against the King of England.”—Bussambaum—Lacroi, Theologica Moralis, 1757.
The Roman Catholic historian of the Jesuits, Cratineau Joly, in his Vol. II., page 435, approvingly says: “Father Guivard, writing about Henry IV., King of France, says: ‘If he cannot be deposed, let us make war; and if we cannot make war, let him be killed.’”
The great Roman Catholic theologian, Dens, puts to himself, the question: “Are heretics justly punished with death? He answers: ‘St. Thomas says: Yes! 22, question 11, Art. 3. Because forgers of money, or other disturbers of the state, are justly punished with death; therefore, all heretics who are forgers of faith, and, as experience testifies, grievously disturb the State.’
“This is confirmed, because God, in the Old Testament, ordered the false prophets to be slain, and in Deuteronomy it is decreed that if any one will act proudly, and will not obey the commands of the priests, let him be put to death.
“The same is proved from the condemnation of the 14th article of John Huss, in the Council of Constance.”—Dens, p. 88, Tome II., Dublin, 1834.
“That we may, in all things, attain the truth. That we may not err in anything, we ought ever to hold, as a fixed principle, that what I see white, I believe to be black, if the superior authorities of the church define it to be so.”—Spiritual Exercise, by Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits.
“As for holy obedience, this virtue must be perfect in every point, in execution, in will, in intellect, doing which is enjoined with all celerity, spiritual joy, and perseverance; persuading ourselves that everything is just, suppressing every repugnant thought and judgment of one’s own, in a certain obedience, should be moved and directed under Divine Providence, by his superior, just as if he were a corpse (Perindi acsi cadaver esset) which allows itself to be moved and led in every direction.”—Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercise.
“If the Holy Church so requires, let us sacrifice our own opinions, our knowledge, our intelligence, the splendid dreams of our imagination and the sublime attainments of human understanding.”—Pope Gregory XVI., Encyclical, Aug. 15th, 1832.