The Jesuit Oath

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 27, 1913

REFERRING to the oath purporting to be that taken by the Jesuits, which has been printed in some of the newspapers recently, the Christian Observer quotes this from Dr. Juan Orts Gonzalez:—

I am absolutely certain that the oath printed on the little folder you sent me was never used at any time by the Jesuits. The Jesuits, however, have taught, and still teach, that the Inquisition is right; that heretics deserve to be burned if they do not accept the Roman Catholic faith. They are deterred from resorting to the Inquisition because the civil law of the land prevents them, but should they ever get control, they could

by right, as they see it, apply at once the methods of the Inquisition; in other words, if the church likes to burn heretics, she has a perfect right to do so. They are compelled to this line of action without any special oath to that effect, because the Roman system teaches that the Inquisition is right, and they are its stanchest exponents.

Regarding this testimony the Observer adds:—

From this it is evident that should the Roman Church come to a dominating influence in any land, there is nothing in the moral and religious beliefs of the church to prevent it from punishing heresy with the fagot or the hangman's noose. The Inquisition has repeatedly done this in past ages with the approval of the hierarchy. And it is the boast of the church that it never changes.