Page "Great Apostasy" Paragraph 64

There have certainly been times when the Church has seemingly benefited from its affiliation with ruling governments, and vice versa.

There is also much evidence that the Church sought to subvert or undermine ruling governments to bring them under its influence.

It used its agents or allowed the methods to be adopted for the acquisition of greater power and influence for the Roman Catholic Church.

The Jesuits were seen as church's soldiers, and, in the view of some, given free rein to use whatever methods as outlined in the forged anti-Catholic document Monita Secreta, also known as the " Secret Instructions of the Jesuits " published ( 1612 and 1614 ) in Kraków, and were also accused of using casuistry to obtain justifications for the unjustifiable in their work ( See: formulary controversy ; Blaise Pascals ' Lettres Provinciales ).