Round 5: Tossup 3

A tradition of “indifference” espoused by this group’s founder “to all created things” discourages “inordinate attachments” to things like health and sickness in favor of dedicating oneself to serving God. A “discernment of spirits” is advocated by this group to understand the “motions of the soul” as part of the daily Examen. “First (10[1])Studies” and “Regency” (10[1])are among the stages experienced (10[1])by this group’s novitiates during “formation.” A fourth vow of “special obedience to the sovereign pontiff” can be made by members of this group. A process of extracting general moral principles from specific cases associated with this group was attacked in the Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal. (10[1])For 10 points, what Catholic order known for reasoning with casuistry was founded by Saint Ignatius (10[1])of Loyola? ■END■

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