Every vice of which humanity is capable, every frailty to which it is subject, finds from them support and consolation.
If S.Peter had been directed by a Jesuit confessor he might have arrived at denying Christ without sin.

The use the confessional as an instrument of political and domestic influence, reciprocating its confidences one with the other in their own debates, but menacing their penitents with penalties if a word of their counsel be bruited to the world.

Expelled from Venice, they work more mischief there by their intrigues than they did when they were tolerated.[169] They scheme to get a hold on Constantinople and Palestine, in order to establish seminaries of fanatics and assassins.

They are responsible for the murder of Henri IV., for if they did not instigate Ravaillac, their doctrine of regicide inspired him.

They can creep into any kingdom, any institution, any household, because they readily accept any terms and subscribe to any conditions in the certainty that by the adroit use of flattery, humbug, falsehood, and corruption, they will soon become masters of the situation.