Terrence W. Tilley, Phd.
Terrence W. Tilley, Ph.D. (page 4) said that he first encountered the 13th of 18 rules of the Rules for Thinking with the Church set forth in Loyola's Spiritual Exercises while attending Brophy College Preparatory School, a Jesuit institution in Phoenix. "Scholastics and ordained-sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly-recruited me and other promising classmates for the order," he said. "BUT THE SCHOLASTICS TOLD US [THE 13TH RULE] BLUNTLY-THAT IF ANY OF US THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS WHITE AND THE HIERARCHICAL CHURCH SAID IT WAS BLACK, WE HAD TO BELIEVE IT WAS BLACK". "LONG BEFORE I ACCEPTED THE PHILOSOPHICAL DICTUM THAT OUR BELIEFS ARE MOSTLY NOT UNDER THE DIRECT CONTROL OF OUR WILLS, I KNEW I COULD NOT ACCEPT THAT RULE." TILLEY EXPLAINED THAT HE BEGAN TO APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MANDATE IN 1993, WHEN HE READ A TALK THAT DULLES GAVE TO JESUITS AT A SYMPOSIUM IN MEXICO. HE SAID THAT ONE REASON FOR THE RULE MAY HAVE BEEN TO ATTEMPT TO WARD OFF CHARGES AGAINST IGNATIUS THAT ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A MEMBER OF THE "ILLUMINATI."LINK (HERE) TO AT THE FORDHAM RAM RULE 13 That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black. For we must undoubtedly believe, that the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of the Orthodox Church His Spouse, by which Spirit we are governed and directed to Salvation, is the same;...LINK (HERE)
