what's a Jesuit?

Answer 1

The Society of Jesus is a religious order founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola. Designated by him "The Company of Jesus" to indicate its true leader and its soldier spirit, the title was Latinized into "Societas Jesu" in the Bull of Paul III approving its formation and the first formula of its Institute ("Regimini militantis ecclesia", 27 Sept., 1540). The term "Jesuit" (of fifteenth-century origin, meaning one who used too frequently or appropriated the name of Jesus), was first applied to the society in reproach (1544-52), and was never employed by its founder, though members and friends of the society in time accepted the name in its good sense. The Society ranks among religious institutes as a mendicant order of clerks regular, that is, a body of priests organized for apostolic work, following a religious rule, and relying on alms for their support [Bulls of Pius V, "Dum indefessae", 7 July, 1571; Gregory XIII, "Ascendente Domino", 25 May, 1585].

Answer 2

A Jesuit is a priest who's a member of the Society of Jesus, which was founded by St, Ignatius Loyola in 1540. Members of the Jesuit order are often teachers or church scholars and are frequently noted for their intellectual abilities.

The URL below will give you a better understanding than I can provide in such a small space:

http://www.jesuit.org/sitemap/

Answer 3

It's an order of Roman Catholic priests and brothers. The organization is called The Society of Jesus, hence Jesuits.

Answer 4

Jesuit is a term for members of The Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests. They are highly educated and extremely smart people, who must be highly motovated to even apply to the order. They are scholars and educators, missionaries and authors of many works. They have contributed to the written documents of the Roman Catholic Church through the ages of their order. Jesuits have a long and honored tradition in the Roman Catholic Church, and they hold some of the highest positions of honor in the Church.

Answer 5

1.a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
2.(often lowercase) a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person: so called in allusion to the methods ascribed to the order by its opponents.
–adjective
3.of or pertaining to Jesuits or Jesuitism.

Answer 6

http://www.jesuit.org/sections/default.asp?SECTION_ID=192&SUBSECTION_ID=207
Here you go....~I read a book of Axioms by a Jesuit priest, and I loved it, but cannot remember the title, it was many years ago. I like the philosophy..

Answer 7

For surprisingly plenty the comparable reason that a exceptional form of Puritans tried to burn anybody who understood using herbs for healing. we've a real concern coping with the thought anybody else has any smarts and whilst they have the audacity to have greater suitable than we, nicely, we get slightly testy and proceed to perform a little surprisingly stupid issues, like call it a conspiracy.

Answer 8

Basically a "Super Catholic". They were established by the catholic church durint the reformation, to preach to the masses.

Answer 9

An educated priest of the Catholic faith...

Answer 10

They are an order that the Vatican started many moons ago.