Editing Jesuits (section)

=== Early 20th century ===
In the [[Constitution of Norway]] from 1814, a relic from the earlier anti-Catholic laws of [[Denmark–Norway]], Paragraph 2, known as the [[Jesuit clause]], originally read: "The Evangelical-Lutheran religion remains the public religion of the State. Those inhabitants, who confess thereto, are bound to raise their children to the same. Jesuits and monastic orders are not permitted. Jews are still prohibited from entry to the Realm." Jews were first allowed into the realm in 1851 after the famous Norwegian poet [[Henrik Wergeland]] had campaigned for this permission. Monastic orders were permitted in 1897, but the ban on Jesuits was only lifted in 1956.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://jesuits.eu/custom/who_we_are/the_jesuits/chronology.pdf |title=Chronology of Jesuit History |website=Jesuits in Europe |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209123738/https://jesuits.eu/custom/who_we_are/the_jesuits/chronology.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Republican Spain]] in the 1930s passed laws banning the Jesuits on grounds that they were obedient to a power different from the state. Pope Pius XI wrote about this: "It was an expression of a soul deeply hostile to God and the Catholic religion, to have disbanded the Religious Orders that had taken a vow of obedience to an authority different from the legitimate authority of the State. In this way it was sought to do away with the Society of Jesus – which can well glory in being one of the soundest auxiliaries of the ''[[Chair of Saint Peter]]'' – with the hope, perhaps, of then being able with less difficulty to overthrow in the near future, the Christian faith and morale in the heart of the Spanish nation, which gave to the Church of God the grand and glorious figure of Ignatius Loyola."<ref>Pius XI, dilectissima Nobis, 1933</ref>