Editing Pope Clement VIII (section)

===''De Auxiliis'' controversy===
In 1597, he established the [[Congregatio de Auxiliis]] which was to settle the theological controversy between the [[Dominican Order]] and the [[Jesuits]] concerning the respective role of [[efficacious grace]] and [[free will]]. Although the debate tended toward a condemnation of [[Molinism]]'s insistence on free will to the detriment of efficacious grace, the important influence of the Jesuit Order&nbsp;— among other considerations&nbsp;— which, beside important political and theological power in Europe, had also various missions abroad ([[Jesuit Reductions|Misiones Jesuiticas]] in South America, [[Jesuit China missions|missions in China]], etc.), led the Pope to abstain from an official condemnation of the Jesuits. In 1611 and again in 1625 a decree prohibited any discussion of the matter, although it was often informally skirted by the publication of commentaries on [[Thomas Aquinas]].