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Michael Tamburini, S.J.
(Italian: 1648-1730) served as the fourteenth Superior General of the
Society, and faced more troublesome attacks on the Society than any
general since Ignatius Loyola. During his 24-year term he experienced a
concerted campaign of vilification against the Society. An early attack
concerned the Chinese Rites Decree. Europe had been fascinated by the
efforts of the Jesuits to accommodate the gestures and vestments of
Catholic ritual to a vaguely Confucian ceremonial. The group opposed to
this effort at adaptation consisted of a monolithic Roman Curia abetted
by Dominicans and Franciscans and also by Pascal’s Jansenists; the
latter in fact, desired nothing less than the complete dissolution of
the Society. The Jesuits were convinced that Christianity can be
reconciled with a culture fundamentally different from the one in which
it had evolved, but their plan was condemned. The Roman decision was
influenced by Roman politics and has been called suicidal
for Christianity in Asia. The onus of arguing the Jesuit position in the face of
growing political pressure on the pope fell to Michael Tamburini. Actually, he had
to present the Jesuit case before two popes, Innocent XIII and Benedict XIII. The
papal legate to China, Carlo Mezzabarba, had assured the Jesuits their practices merited only
the highest praise, but when Carlo returned to Rome he joined the loud chorus condemning
the Society. The Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith wanted a complete
condemnation of the Society which would have prohibited novices from entering and
reduced vows to three years, so that the Society would soon cease to exist. This
was an omen for the future since it happened 50 years before the Suppression in 1773.
Pope Benedict XIII was convinced by Michael Tamburini’s presentation and did not suppress
the Society but did issue an edict condemning the Jesuit practices in China. Benedict
advised the missionaries that conversions were due to God’s grace, urged them to
preach the Faith in its purity, encouraged the Jesuits to martyrdom, and commanded that
they take an oath of obedience regarding the Chinese rites. The Jesuits were certainly
martyred in great numbers and under terrible conditions, but in the meantime the
Church in Rome squandered a magnificent and successful missionary endeavor. (Ban, Ham, JLx,
Som)

fonte: http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/jp/jpsuz.htm

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