The "Jesuit Oath" is fake and fraudulent put out by a scammer who was booted out of the order in the 1600s. It has been kept alive by anti-Catholic bigots.
Hey Corker, stick a cork in it!
they're not bad people, just seditious criminals
Apologies the lies against the Jesuits come from two different sources.
https://forums.catholic.com/t/what-is-the-jesuit-oath/6453
Peggy_FryeSep '04
You can rest assured that the “Jesuit Oath” you’re referring to is a complete fabrication with no basis in fact whatsoever. According to the *Catholic Encyclopedia * (see “Jesuit Apologetic” link below) this oath was the product of the imagination of the forger Robert Ware (mid to late 1600’s).
Here’s an excerpt from the *Catholic Encyclopedia * article “Impostors”:
"Robert Ware the forger, the author of “Foxes and Firebrands”, who has of late years been so thoroughly exposed by Father Bridgett, traded upon the same prejudices. His more public career began contemporaneously with that of Oates in 1678, and by sheltering himself behind the high reputation of his dead father, Sir James Ware, amongst whose manuscripts he pretended to discover all kinds of compromising papers, he obtained currency for his forgeries, remaining almost undetected until modern times. Many foul aspersions upon the character of individual popes, Jesuits, and other Catholics, and also upon some Puritans, which have found their way into the pages of respectable historians, are due to the fabrications of “this literary skunk”, as Fr. Bridgett not unjustifiably calls him (see Bridgett, “Blunders and Forgeries”, pp. 209-296).
Some other vindictive and unprincipled scoundrels whose impostures for the most part took a literary form may also be mentioned here, though without any hope of exhausting the list. Foremost among them comes the Abbé Zahorowski, a Jesuit expelled from his order in which as a young scholastic he had been guilty of certain mean and discreditable tricks. In revenge for his expulsion he contrived to write and publish the notorious “Monita Secreta”, which, as a code of secret instructions issued by authority, pretended to lay bare the shameless and Machiavellian policy followed by the Society of Jesus. That the “Monita Secreta” are a forgery is now universally admitted even by opponents, and since the publication of the memoirs of Father Wielewicki (Scriptores Rerum Polonicarum, vols. VII, X, XIV) no doubt remains that Zahorowski was the author (see Duhr, “Jesuitenfabeln” No. 5; Brou, “Les Jésuites de la Légende”, I, 281).