De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

Today is Campion Day - the Feast day of Saint Edmund Campion an English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. Campion was highly regarded by Queen Elizabeth, having led a debate in front of her at Stonyhurst College in 1566. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. His feast day is celebrated every 1st of December. St. Edmund has been a powerful intercessor on my behalf since I was ten or eleven. His stirring " brag " (a challenge he issued to the privy council) has long been an inspiration to me:  "The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood. So the Faith was planted: so it must be restored." As a former student of The Campion School in Hornchurch, E...

The Jesuit order: the Society of Jesus are a proud Counter-Reformation Order known colloquially as "God's Marines", in reference to their founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola's military background as well as members' willingness to accept orders anywhere in the world and live in extreme conditions. St. Ignatius founded the society after being wounded in battle and experiencing a religious conversion. He composed the Spiritual Exercises to help others follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. In 1534, Ignatius and six other young men, including St. Francis Xavier and Bl. Pierre Favre, gathered and professed vows of poverty, chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the Pope .  Rule 13 of Ignatius' Rules for Thinking with the Church said: "That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity[...], if [the Church] shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to ...