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To: grey_whiskers
Right. And the Rosary started in honor of Mary, because St. Dominic had failed for years to suppress a heresy (Albigensianism -- the spirit is good and the material world is bad -- which heresy sto




Two men considering a religious vocation were having a conversation. "What is similar about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders? " the one asked.

The second replied, "Well, they were both founded by Spaniards -- St. Dominic for the Dominicans, and St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Jesuits. 
They were also both founded to combat heresy -- the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians, and the Jesuits to fight the Protestants." 

"What is different about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders?" 

"Met any Albigensians lately?" 

528 posted on 08/09/2019 5:47:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

yes. The Dominicans were good at slaughtering people.


536 posted on 08/09/2019 6:02:57 AM PDT by Mom MD
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