THE POPE AND THE JESUITS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 351, 9 January 1880, Page 3

THE POPE AND THE JESUITS.

(From the Boman correspondent of the Geneva Courier.) The Very Iteverend Father Bcckx, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, has made, in the name of the whole Order, an act of full adhesion to the restoration of Christian philosophy, For this purpose he went to Borne and, in a private audience granted him by the Holy Jalher, declared his entire submission, not only to the teachings and orders of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, but also to his counsels and his smallest desires. At the same time, he informed His Holiness that measures had been taken that the members of the Society of Jesus devoted to teaching, should identify themselves more and more \c«phcitJy and uniformly with the doctrines of St. Thomas of Aquin. Though expected and quite natural, this act of adhesion was particularly gratifying to His Holiness. What aDove all pleased the boveragn Pontiff was the very spontaneousness of the step taken by the Very Rev. Father Beckx, no less than the unlimited devoteduus\ to the Apostolic See, the zeal for truth and the greater good of souls. the spirit of simplicity and abnegation that the words of the sainllv religious bore upon them. Hence the Pope did not confine himself to personally congratulating him ; but, when the audience was over, and iv the presence of many prelates attending him, he expressed the great satisfaction he had just experienced " in speaking," he said, 1 with a Saint." The Sovereign Pontiff was pleased to add other not less precious encomiums of the Society of Jesus, confirming its title of an illustrious Order deserving well of the Church.