The Jesuits
The Society of Jesus, formally approved by Pope Paul III in his bull Regimini Militantis
Ecclaesiae of September 1540, was one of many new religious orders of men and women
which appeared during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. All of these new orders
were both fruit and expression of that renewal of European Catholicism commonly known
today as the Catholic Reformation. The Jesuits, however, were the most renowned of
these new religions. This new religion was …
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