The European Union in Prophecy
Page 104. Council of Constance.--A primary source on the Council of Constance is Richendal Ulrich, Das Concilium so zu Constanz gehalten ist worden( Augsburg, 1483, Incun.). An interesting, recent study of this text, based on the " Aulendorf Codex," is in the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, published by Carl Kup, Ulrich von Richental ' s Chronicle of the Council of Constance( New York, 1936). See also H. Finke( ed.), Acta Concilii Constanciensis( 1896), vol. 1; Hefele, Conciliengeschichte( 9 vols.), vols. 6, 7; L. Mirbt, Quellen zur Geschichte des Papsttums( 1934); Milman, Latin Christianity, vol. 7, pp. 426-524; Pastor, The History of the Popes( 34 vols.), vol. 1, p. 197 ff.
More recent publications on the council are K. Zaehringer, Das Kardinal Kollegium auf dem Konstanzer Konzil( Muenster, 1935); Th. F. Grogau, The Conciliar Theory as It Manifested Itself at the Council of Constance( Washington, 1949); Fred A. Kremple, Cultural Aspects of the Council of Constance and Basel( Ann Arbor, 1955); John Patrick McGowan, d ' Ailly and the Council of Constance( Washington: Catholic University, 1936).
For John Huss see John Hus, Letters, 1904; E. J. Kitts, Pope John XXIII and Master John Hus( London, 1910); D. S. Schaff, John Hus( 1915); Schwarze, John Hus( 1915); and Matthew Spinka, John Hus and the Czech Reform( 1941).
Page 234. Jesuitism.--For a statement concerning the origin, the principles, and the purposes of the " Society of Jesus," as outlined by members of this order, see a work entitled Concerning Jesuits, edited by the Rev. John Gerard, S. J., and published in London, 1902, by the Catholic Truth Society. In this work it is said, " The mainspring of the whole organization of the Society is a spirit of entire obedience: ' Let each one,' writes St. Ignatius, ' persuade himself that those who live under obedience ought to allow themselves to be moved and directed by divine Providence through their superiors, just as though they were a dead body, which allows itself to be carried anywhere and to be treated in any manner whatever, or as an old man ' s staff, which serves him who holds it in his hand in whatsoever way he will.'
" This absolute submission is ennobled by its motive, and should be, continues the... founder, ' prompt, joyous and persevering;... the obedient religious accomplishes joyfully that which his superiors have confided to him for the general
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