They pledged themselves, by this vow of obedience, to perform that duty with their eyes shut.

It was not their mission to reform or purify or revivify Catholicism, but to maintain it intact with all its intellectual anachronisms.

How well they succeeded may be judged from the issue of the Council of Trent, in which Lainez and Salmeron played so prominent a part.

That rigid enforcement of every jot and tittle in the Catholic hierarchical organization, in Catholic ritual, in the Catholic cult of saints and images, in the Catholic interpretation of Sacraments, in Catholic tradition as of equal value with the Bible, and lastly in the theory of Papal Supremacy, which was the astounding result of a Council convened to alter and reform the Church, can be attributed in no small measure to Jesuit persistency.
Ignatius attained his object.

Obedience, blind, servile, unquestioning, unscrupulous, became the distinguishing feature of the Jesuits.