Note 1021 — Chapter XIX · School-Management.

“The Society of Jesus,” says Cardinal Newman, “has been more distinguished than any before it for the rule of obedience.... With the Jesuits, as well as with the religious Communities which are their juniors, usefulness, secular and religious, literature, education, the confessional, preaching, the oversight of the poor, missions, the care of the sick, have been their chief object of attention; bodily austerities and the ceremonial of devotion have been made of but secondary importance. Yet it may fairly be questioned, whether in an intellectual age, when freedom both of thought and of action is so dearly prized, a greater penance can be devised for the soldier of Christ than the absolute surrender of judgment and will to the command of another.” In Development of Christian Doctrine, ch. VIII.