@LucieTheLakie When the Jesuits were founded in the 1500s, they served as the ideological “shock troops” of the papacy during the Counter-Reformation and wars of religion. Read up on the St. Bartholomew’s Massacre in Paris in the 1572, during which Jesuit-led mobs hacked to death thousands of Protestant Huguenots (including the famous education reformer Peter Ramus). Tracing the evolution of the Jesuits from their quasi-Machiavellian origins to their 1970s turn towards Marxist liberation theology is an interesting project indeed!