He was a Spaniard, a servant of S.
Peter; and for him the creed enounced by Rome was all in all.

But his commerce with the world, his astute Basque nature, and his judgment of the European situation, taught him that he must use other means than those which Francis and Dominic had employed.

He had to make his Company, that forlorn hope of Catholicism, the exponent of a decadent and rotten faith.

He had to adapt it to the necessities of Christendom in dissolution, to constitute it by a guileful and sagacious method.

He had to render it wise in the wisdom of the world, in order that he might catch the powers of this world by their interests and vices for the Church.