I'm assuming due to having little to no influence now
most likely yeah
if you look at the Jesuit heyday tho they rapidly accumulated power as a collective eminence gris
Ignatius of Loyola was a properly mad fucker, the kind of personage secret history conspiracy types should go mad for
they're an interesting contradiction, this militant soldier of God Counter-Reformation deal crossed with liberality - mitigating the worst of colonial abuses
famous for their sophistry and complicated dealings
the Bene Gesserit up the subtle and tone down the soldier bit - they can kick fucking ass but they don't want that to be common knowledge
there's a pretty decent and well-meaning mid-80s flick about Jesuits in the New World starring De Niro, Jeremy Irons + Liam Neeson