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A Basque nobleman who became a priest, Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus and wrote the Spiritual Exercises, a method of prayer that shaped Jesuit formation and missionary activity.
Political topics
Ignatius of Loyola leans further toward religious than 77% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Ignatius of Loyola stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Ignatius of Loyola sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Social doctrine of the Catholic Church, combining traditionalist morality and defense of life with concern for social justice, subsidiarity and worker dignity, under the hierarchical authority of the papacy and canon law.
Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
Nineteenth-century constitutional monarchy model in which the monarch exercises a fourth Moderating Power above the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, arbitrating conflicts and guaranteeing stability over an agrarian economy.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian28%
A Dominican friar and the foremost systematizer of medieval scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas fused Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology in the Summa Theologica, arguing for natural law as the basis of moral and political order, the authority of the Church and the Christian monarch, and hierarchy as the earthly reflection of divine order.
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