Some people may not actually see Catholicism as being very powerful. There might be hints, but few see the fullness. This is because the Papacy doesn't want people to know how much political clout it holds. To prevent opposition, the Papacy uses the Jesuits to build its political empire.

The Jesuit symbol and motto "IHS" on a Masonic temple's stained-glass window. The Jesuits control...

The number of Jesuits is always up for debate, and even the best sources can't give matching accounts. The Society does not want us to know how many there really are. Often, they are hidden behind sodalities—other front secret societies:

And we have it on good authority that the Jesuits have been active in forming other holy orders (or sodalities), such as the Knights of Peter Claver and the Knights of Columbus, over which they retain immense control. For it is an old trick on the part of the sons of Loyola, that whenever their Order is under threat or suspicion they swell their numbers by means of the sodalities of ‘new’ orders.ⁱⁱⁱ

Moreover, the Pope has thousands of secret agents worldwide. They include Jesuits, the Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, Opus Dei, and others. The Vatican’s Intelligence Service and its field resources are second to none.^iv

There is considerable analogy between Masonic and Jesuitic degrees; and the Jesuits also tread down the shoe and bare the knee, because Ignatius Loyola thus presented himself at Rome and asked for the confirmation of the order.^v

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In a letter dated January 22, 1870, Italian revolutionary and Illuminati leader Guiseppe Mazzini wrote this to Albert Pike, 33-degree Freemason:

We must allow all of the federations to continue just as they are, with their systems, their central authorities and diverse modes of correspondence between high grades of the same rite, organized as they are at present, but we must create a super rite, which will remain unknown, to which we will call those Masons of high degree whom we shall select. With regard to our brothers in Masonry, these men must be pledged to the strictest secrecy. Through this supreme rite, we will govern all Freemasonry which will become the one International Center, the more powerful because its direction will be unknown.^vi

Albert Pike wrote a letter to Mazzini on August 15, 1871, in which he outlined plans for three world wars that were seen as necessary to bring about the One World Order. For a short time, this letter was on display in the British Museum Library in London and it was copied by William Guy Carr, former Intelligence Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy.

We shall unleash the nihilist and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity...will receive the pure light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer...the destruction of Christianity and atheism. Both conquered and exterminated at the same time.^vii

According to threeworldwars.com, these were the purposes of the three world wars Pike and Mazzini had in mind:

The First World War: To overthrow the power of the Czars in Orthodox Russia and bring about an atheistic communist state.

The Second World War: To originate between Great Britain and Germany. To strengthen communism as antithesis to Judeo-Christian culture and bring about a Zionist State in Israel.

The Third World War: A Middle Eastern War involving Judaism and Islam and spreading internationally.^viii

Dr. Dennis L. Cuddy agrees:

Mazzini, with Pike, developed a plan for three world wars so that eventually every nation would be willing to surrender its national sovereignty to a world government. The first war was to end the czarist regime in Russia, and the second war was to allow the Soviet Union to control Europe. The third world war was to be in the Middle East between Moslems and Jews and would result in Armageddon.^ix

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The French Revolution of 1789-1799 was a fight not only against feudalism and the French monarchy, but also against the Church. The Word of God was replaced with the goddess of Reason. God's standard was replaced with a human standard: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

The French Revolution and the spread of the antiChristian Cult of Reason were the result of Jesuit, Masonic, and Illuminati influence.

The Phrygian cap, used as a symbol of freedom by the Jacobins in the French...

Jesuit Professor Adam Weishaupt created the Order of the Illuminati in 1776 in Bavaria, Germany. These Illuminati were part of the coalition of rebels that became the Jacobins—the group responsible for the French Revolution.

The Jacobins currently terrorizing France, Barruel argued in his preface, could not have appeared out of thin air...The principal authors of the conspiracy, he claimed, were Voltaire, Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, and King Frederick of Prussia, who had secretly planned to destroy Christianity...These "sophists" had formed an alliance with the Freemasons, whose antireligious conspirital origins Barruel traced back to the medieval Knights Templars. The final and most utterly evil group in this triple conspiracy, however, were the Bavarian Illuminati, under their satanic leader Adam Weishaupt. Jacobinism had emerged out of the union of these three groups.^x

The French philosopher Voltaire, whose ideas were instrumental in the French Revolution, was a Freemason—as was Napoleon:

The evidence in favor of a Masonic initiation previous to Napoleon’s assumption of the imperial title is overwhelming: The initiation took place in the body of an Army Philadelphe Lodge of the—Ecossais—Primitive Rite of Narbone, the third initiation of the "Ecole Communique" being an advancement in that Rite; These initiations took place between 1795 and 1798.^xi

Pope Pius VI died shortly after being dethroned by Berthier. Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morte_di_S._S._Pio_VI.jpg...

Napoleon, under orders from the Jesuits, took the Pope captive in 1798.

American historian Emanuel Josephson tells us that the Jesuits used Napoleon in their larger scheme:

Weishaupt and his fellow Jesuits cut off the income to the Vatican by launching and leading the French Revolution; by directing Napoleon’s conquest of Catholic Europe; [and]...by eventually having Napoleon throw Pope Pius VII in jail at Avignon until he agreed, as the price of his release, to reestablish the Jesuit Order. This Jesuit war on the Vatican was terminated by the Congress of Vienna and by the secret, 1822, Treaty of Verona.^xii

Eric Phelps explains that "The parallels between the Jesuits’ French and Russian Revolutions are striking." Here are some of the comparisons:

1. Both revolutions were based on communist writings of Freemasons—Voltaire and Marx. Did not the Jesuits perfect communism on their reductions in Paraguay?

2. Both revolutions plundered the state churches..

3. Both revolutions ended the monarchies. Were not the Jesuits enemies of both the Bourbon and the Romanoff dynasties? Had not both monarchies expelled the Jesuits from their countries?

4. Both revolutions produced Jesuit Republics—republics in form, but absolute monarchies in power...

5. Both revolutions declared atheism as the religion of the state. Evidenced by their deeds, are not the Jesuits truly atheists?

6. Both revolutions carried out a reign of terror by an inquisitional secret police...

7. Both revolutions resulted in military dictators who punished the enemies of the Jesuits. Did not the Jesuits benefit even though Napoleon and Stalin, in deceiving the nations, openly banned the Order from France and Russia?^xiii

Giovanni Nicolini agrees:

During the Order’s Suppression from 1773 to 1814 by Pope Clement XIV, General Ricci created the Illuminati with his soldier, Adam Weishaupt, the Father of modern Communism, who, with his Jacobins, conducted the French Revolution. Years later Jesuit General Ledochowski, with his Bolsheviks, conducted the Russian Revolution in 1917, it being identical to the upheaval of 1789.^xiv

The Papacy's connections with the Croation Ustaše were obvious from the beginning.
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In 1929, the Ustaša military organization was founded. This group assassinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934, and slaughtered Jewish and Orthodox Croatians. For the Ustaša, "relations with the Vatican were as important as relations with Germany."^xv

In 1941, Adolf Hitler put the Ustasha into power, in compliance with the Vatican-Third Reich Concordat, of July 20, 1933. Under that Concordat Dr. Ante Pavelic, the dictator of Croatia—with the direct aid of the Archbishop of Zagreb Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac—instructed the Ustasha to implement a program of forced “conversion” of the Croatia population to Catholicism: 840,000 people were murdered when they refused to become Roman Catholics.^xvi

In an official document dated as late as May 8, 1944, His Eminence Archbishop Stepinac, head of the Catholic hierarchy (in Nazi Croatia, who was later convicted of war crimes) informed the Holy Father that to date ‘244,000 Orthodox Serbs have been converted to the Church of God.'"^xvii

Catholic priest and writer Franjo Kralik wrote this in the Croation version of Catholic Weekly in 1941:

Love has its limits. The movement for freeing the world from the Jews is a movement for the renaissance of human dignity. The all wise and Almighty God is behind this movement."

There are definite and frightening connections between Catholicism and the Jesuits and Hitler and the Nazis.

According to former Catholic Priest L. H. Lehmann, "It was a priest, Father Staempfle, not Hitler, who really wrote Mein Kampf."^xviii

Lehmann also asserts this:

Hitler approves of everything particularly relating to Jesuit Catholicism as opposed to Protestantism. He approves of the indisputability of Catholic dogmas, of the intolerant attitude of Catholic education, of the necessity of blind faith, of the personal infallibility of the pope...In an open and prophetic expression of his admiration for the Catholic Church, he says: "Thus the Catholic Church is more secure than ever. It can be predicted that, as passing phenomena vanish away, she will remain as a beacon light" (emphasis added).^xix

One of the principle Catholic personalities to help Hitler into power was Franz von Papen,...

Hitler himself said this:

I learned much from the order of the Jesuits...Until now there has never been anything more grandiose, on the earth, than the hierarchical system of the catholic church. I transferred much of this organization into my own party.^xx

The powerful Nazi leader Franz von Papen, Vice-Chancellor of the Reich, said this:

The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy (emphasis in original).^xxi

In response to von Papen's surprising claims, historian P. D. Stuart asks, "Now, are we to regard it as sheer coincidence that von Papen was not only Vice-Chancellor of the Nazi party, but also a member of the Catholic Center Party in the parliament of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933)? And is it merely coincidental that von Papen was also given the honorary dignity (title) of Papal Chamberlain by Pope Pius XI; or that the said honour was revived on July 24, 1959 by Pope John XXIII?"^xxii

Note, as an aside, that the Third Reich was not the only superpower to follow the Pope's principles. American President George W. Bush called John Paul II, "a champion of human freedom" and "an inspiration to millions of Americans."^xxiii In 2001 the Bush-appointed US ambassador to the Vatican declared that the "values of [the Bush] Administration and those of the Vatican line up hand in glove."^xxiv Read more about the relationship between the Papacy and the USA

Chief of the Nazi Sicherheitdienst Walter Shellenberg tells us about the Nazi secret service:

The SS had been organized by Heinrich Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. The rules of service and spiritual exercises prescribed by Ignatius de Loyola constituted a model which Heinrich Himmler strove carefully to copy. Absolute obedience was the supreme rule; every order had to be executed without comment.^xxv

Himmler was closely associated with the Jesuits through his father and brother. Hitler said of him, "I can see Himmler as our Ignatius of Loyola."^xxvi

P. D. Stuart questions these connections, as should we:

Why were Hitler’s closest advisers Jesuits? Why did Mr. Hitler admire and copy the Jesuits? Are these just mere coincidences? Or are we once again seeing the Jesuits playing the chameleon, and eclipsing the wiles of Ovid?

...let us not mince words here, Hitler, the faithful “son of the Catholic Church,” was the Pope’s Malleus Papa—his hammer.^xxvii

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Fidel Castro's time in power was also part of the Jesuit ploy:

[Wherever] a totalitarian movement erupts, whether Communist or Nazi [i.e. fascism], a Jesuit can be found in the role of "adviser" or leader; in Cuba [it was] Castro’s "Father" Armando Llorente.^xxviii

Castro himself was Jesuit-trained at various Jesuit schools, including El Colegio de Belén, a Jesuit boarding school in Havana!^xxix

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe, leader of Africa's current "reign of terror,"^xxx has Jesuitical roots. Historian P. D. Stuart says this:

President Robert Mugabe.
"Mugabe: From secret Jesuit to grieving father to embittered tyrant"
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Even mass murderer Robert Mugabe is Jesuit trained. Mugabe was raised as a Roman Catholic, studied in Marxist and Jesuit schools, including the exclusive Kutama College, headed by Father Jerome O’Hea, S.J., who took Mugabe under his wing.^xxxi

Lord David Owen, British Foreign Secretary in the late 1970s, has this to say about Mugabe:

Whatever Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's leader, may claim in the coming days, there is no way that the country can have anything like fair and free elections. His ruthlessness became clear to me when, as Foreign Secretary, I was negotiating with him over Rhodesian independence between 1977 and 1979...He was, however, an ideological zealot of Jesuit upbringing, implacable and obdurate.^xxxii

The Papacy and the Jesuit Order are behind Mugabe and his seemingly "unCatholic" actions:

Amid escalating calls to excommunicate him from the Roman Catholic Church, President Robert Mugabe has donated a large sum of money to it...But Father Oskar Wermter, a Jesuit missionary priest who has lived in Zimbabwe for over 30 years, said calls to excommunicate Mugabe were "old hat" and were unlikely to be heard (emphasis added).^xxxiii

Many writers warned of a great conspiracy of the Jesuits in America. Samuel Morse, the father of Morse Code, was one of them. The preface of Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, written in 1835, reads as follows:

Samuel Morse in 1840.
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The author undertakes to show – that a conspiracy against the liberties of this Republic is now in full action, under the direction of the wily Prince Metternich of Austria, who knowing the impossibility of obliterating this troublesome example of a great and free nation by force of arms, is attempting to accomplish his object through the agency of an army of Jesuits. The array of facts and arguments going to prove the existence of such a conspiracy, will astonish any man who opens the book with the same incredulity as we did.^xxxiv

In 1816 John Adams wrote this to President Jefferson:

Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as painters, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell it is this Society of Loyola’s.^xxxv

President Abraham Lincoln said this:

The Protestants of both the North and South would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the Jesuits, if they could learn how the priests, the nuns, and the monks, which daily land on our shores, under the pretext of preaching their religion...are nothing else but the emissaries of the Pope, of Napoleon III, and the other despots of Europe, to undermine our institutions, alienate the hearts of our people from our constitution, and our laws, destroy our schools, and prepare a reign of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain, and wherever there are any people who want to be free.^xxxvi

The great French General Marquis de Lafayette once said this:

It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country the United States of America are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated most of the wars of Europe.^xxxvii

These men of the past knew the truth. As we can see by the list below, many American universities are run by Jesuits.

Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, said, "all rectors and public professors in universities and academies,...

Frighteningly, American presidents are being trained at these institutions, along with many other high government officials. Read about the current infiltration of Jesuits into American politics