Category: Maritime Rumors

• The "Jesuit" Titanic (Precursor)

  This theory held, in earlier nineteenth-century form, that Jesuits or papal agents were involved in the secret destruction of ships and maritime disasters long before later versions attached the idea to the Titanic. It emerged from the larger anti-Jesuit tradition that treated the Society of Jesus as omnipresent, strategic, and willing to use deception, assassination, and covert operations. In maritime form, ordinary ship loss could be folded into a narrative of Catholic sabotage and invisible priestly power.