The Society of Jesus, formally approved by Pope Paul III in his bull Regimini Militantis Ecclaesiae of September 1540, was one of many new religious orders of men and women which appeared during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. All of these new orders were both fruit and expression of that renewal of European Catholicism commonly known today as the Catholic Reformation. The Jesuits, however, were the most renowned of these new religions. This new religion was …showed first 75 words of 3873 total…

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