Players/The Catholic Church Enlightenment Confrontation + 19th-Century Consolidation (1648-1900)
Jesuit Suppression / Restoration + Papal Infallibility + Rerum Novarum
Jansenism vs Molinism — internal theological conflict serves as proxy for structural power struggles. Port-Royal + Gallicanism (French ecclesiastical independence) threaten centralized Roman control. Suppressed via papal bull Unigenitus 1713.
**Jesuit Suppression (1773, Clement XIV *Dominus ac Redemptor*)** — Church loses primary intelligence + educational apparatus for 41 years under Bourbon-court pressure. Jesuits survive underground in Russia + Prussia. Restored 1814 by Pius VII. Direct template for Reports #73 Black Sun Ratlines (1945-era underground institutional-continuity via non-hostile jurisdictions).
French Revolution 1789 dismantles Church French infrastructure.
Vatican I (1869-70) / Pastor Aeternus — Papal Infallibility dogma promulgated in the exact year Papal States are lost to Italian unification (1870). Structural-demographic read: declaring Pope infallible was the compensatory mechanism for lost physical territory. Centralized ideological authority at the exact moment secular geopolitical leverage collapsed.
**Leo XIII *Rerum Novarum* (1891)** — Church's structural entry into modern capitalism/socialism debate. Defended labor during Industrial Revolution.
Also in The Catholic Church