This organization's "lax morality" and use of casuistry was attacked in the Jansenist Provincial Letters by Pascal.
A member of this organization designed a "sunflower clock," notated birdsong and described a "cat organ" in Musurgia Universalis, and explained hieroglyphs in The Egyptian Oedipus. As a paleontologist, a member of this organization excavated the Peking Man and the Piltdown Man; that man theorized that the noosphere, or sphere of human thought, was evolving to the Omega Point. Athanasius Kircher and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ("tay-YARD shar-DANN") belonged to this organization, which was cofounded by (*) Peter Faber. This organization's "lax morality" and use of casuistry was attacked in the Jansenist Provincial Letters by Pascal. At the Battle of Pamplona, the founder of this organization took a cannonball to the leg, after which he meditated in a cave while writing The Spiritual Exercises. For 10 points, name this Catholic order founded by Ignatius of Loyola.
A member of this organization designed a "sunflower clock," notated birdsong and described a "cat organ" in Musurgia Universalis, and explained hieroglyphs in The Egyptian Oedipus.
the Jesuits [or Society of Jesus; or Societas Iesu; prompt on the Catholic church until "Catholic" is read]