... the role of the Catholic Church in producing propaganda, along with Althusser's Ideological State Apparatuses. It also looks at St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, and his biographer P. Pedro de Ribadeynera. Finally, the chapter considers the Ignatian cults in Rome during the 1680s...

...Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and have experienced a massive upheaval in what they believe...