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A Danger to The State A Historical Novel
Through a large cast of historical and fictional characters, A Danger to The Sate relates one of the outstanding though little known dramas of modern history. In 1773, surrendering at last to a 20 year long campaign of intrigue and calumny, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the famous Society of Jesus, founded 200 years earlier by St. Ignatius of Loyola. Just sixteen years before the French Revolution, Europe's Catholic kings, threatening to take their countries into schism, pressured Pope Clement into destroying the strongest bulwark and the Chruch's most successful band of missinaries. What lay behaind this apparent act of madness? There was no popular apposition to tje Jesuits, and the Kings were mainly dupes. The driving force came from the writers and thinkers of the French nlightenment, agnostics and atheists that included a number of Europe's leading statesman among it's members. "Once we have destroyed the Jesuits", wrote Voltaire, "we should have easy work with the Chruch."
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