Jacopo Leone
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Jacopo Leone (born 1805[1]) was an Italian abbate who was admitted into the Society of Jesus as a novitiate in 1824.[1] He is known for writing The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order. The book details his accidental hearing of a secret meeting among prominent members of the Jesuit Order in Italy. Leone subsequently left the Jesuits, partly upon hearing the occult[2] nature of the organization and partly because he became jaded with the Jesuit's practices which were aimed to produce obedience to the order more than anything.[3] In a plan to escape the Jesuitical order, Leone soon entered the clerical world and opted to join a seminary.[4] Leone, becoming acquainted with Catholic dogma and practices, concluded that Catholicism is antithetical to the Bible. After some initial setbacks of Protestants attempting to publish The Jesuit Conspiracy without his consent, he would later succeed in disseminating his book with the help of editor and French translator Victor Prosper Considerant. The contents of the work consist of an account of Leone's admittance and subsequent departing of the Society of Jesus, the transcribed speeches of several prominent members of the Jesuit Order, other author's findings and summations of the Jesuits, and the French political climate during that time. The aforementioned speeches fill up the majority of the publication. These orations detail how the Jesuits planned to infiltrate and blackmail governments in order to become world dominant, distribute propaganda to the masses and those within the order, coverup any immoral practices that Catholics and Jesuits may be wont to engage in, install a Jesuitical pope, murder "heretics" through legislation of governments, indoctrinate lower members of the Jesuits to carry out the hierarchy's goals, distort the doctrines and teachings of the Bible because it contradicts Catholic axioms and practices, and to stifle Protestantism. Leone attempted to or perhaps succeeded in following up The Jesuit Conspiracy with a publication detailing how Voltairianism was circulating in Catholic pulpits a century before Voltaire was born.[5] Leone claims that Catholic priests preached atheism and that the Bible was merely a fable. What's more, he claims that the stories and the morality of the Bible were mocked all of which produced large crowds.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leone, Jacopo (1848). The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order. London: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. pp. 1, 8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Leone, Jacopo (1848). The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order. London: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. pp. 66, 68.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Leone, Jacopo (1848). The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order. London: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. p. 40.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Leone, Jacopo (1848). The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order. London: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. pp. 43–44.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Leone, Jacopo (1848). The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order. London: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. pp. 260–261.
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