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South America Some Observations on the Church and the People THE JESUITS
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TREATED THE INDIANS.
(Specially written for the "W.A. Record" by .J. As the major portion of these "Ob-
servations'' has been concerned chief-
ly with the people of Latin America, their customs and characteristics, it is but meet that the concluding instalments should deal, even though the condition of the briefly, with (lurch in those much maligned and inis-understood countries. Since the writer's return from South America he has spent quite a deal of time and talk in trying to dispel some of the very considerable ignorance obtaining among his fello. Australians re-
garding
the Latin-American Catho-
lics and their practices. Not so long ago it was customary for a certain section of our nonCatholic citizens to allege all sorts of bad things against English speakbut owing to the ing Catholics channe's of publicity, though still limited, that Catholics are now hap ;
M.
MILLER,
Perth.
still being in the unhappy possession of a " Spanish Inquisition" in full going order, coraIdete with torture chambers, racks, etc.-operated, of course, by scowling Dominicans, with the help of masked and wily .Jesuits-fanaticism aided by wise credited with
casuistry. unA certain section of the Prase doahtedly lends itself to the dissemination of these fanciful fables. Bigotry and credulity go hand in hand in gloating over sensational statements in which the Church or memReligious Orders figure bers of tl:e Prominently. The more daring the absurdities concocted by diseased iiii aginetions the more eagerly are they taken up by the opponents of the (lhurch.
The writer during his three years' sojourn in South America had exceptional opportunities as a Catholic of
writer that these clergy would have a very good case to state before an Arbitration Court for an increase in wages were such a tribunal in existence there. In Chile the P.?. is paid about 22s 6d a week, and The Curate half that amount. Were it not that a large percentage of these pr ac have private means, it would iti!ced he a bard matter to make ends meet. All churches of the Religious orders, all Convents, Colleges, Schools, Hospitals, and Orphanages have been erected and are maintained from the in funds of INS particular Order charge of such Institution, supplemented, of course, in many instances by generous donations from time to time, of land and money from wealAll thy and charitable Catholics. the Cathedrals and most of the Parish ('hurches are administered by the secular clergy, natives of .:ad educated and trained in the country. Although in Latin America there are numbers of priests as 1.oly and as pious and self-sacrificing as in other countries, yet it seemed to the writer that generally speaking the secular priesthood, which is almost invariably composed of men of very
Spaniards and Frenchmen. The German Jesuits are in the Sdsth of Chile, where there is a large German Catholic population, In Santiago de the writer met an old German Jesuit Father some years ago, one Father Wolter. lie was a brother of the famous Dom Placid Wolter, founder of the Beuron Congregation of Benedictines. Also it is the writer's privilege to count as a very good friend one of the very few Latin-Americans in the Jesuit Order -Father Villalon-Professor of English at the College of St. Ignatius, Father Yillalon Santiago de Chile. is one of the most charming and retiring of men. Ile is the author of a remarkably clear and concise Engwhich lish and Spanish Grammar, has achieved quite a name among the South American Colleges. Special mention must he accorded to two Orders doing splendid work. These are the Salesian Fathers and the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts, commonly known as the Picpus Fathers. The former Order conducts trade and technical schools for the education and training of orphans In and boys of indigent parents. Brazil, in addition to such Colleges, they have several Indian Missions. Mr. Henry Savage Landor, the celebrated traveller and explorer, wrote recently of these :-"Although i am not a Roman Catholic. I :oust give testimony to the work the Fathers are accomplishing in the jungle and forest regions by the banks o' the Araguaya River, an enormous tributary of the Amnion River. They have
cultivated great stretches of the land, have built a small icteorological observatory, and are xorking hard among the Indians, teaching them their religion, and also agriculture and all kinds of trades The gentleness of the Fathers tr.wards the Indians is admirable, and they are worshipped almost by the Latis es in those remote regions." It was a pleasurable surprise to the writer to come across an %mitrelian, a Father Jones, hailing from Sydney, who is a member of the Salesian Order in Punta Arenas, down near ('ape Horn. doing excellent work among the people of that part. ITo be continued. r
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is regarded more in acquiring a first hand knowledge of good families, profession than as a of a Church conditions in several of ti.-z the light con- vocation from God. to the church in other lands. Their Latin American Republics, and the And curiously enough the Latinwith write to claims sequently a statements in this regard assume but seldom enters an Or.ailierican the on experience actual of deauthority beautiful indefiniteness varying in exception of the Franciswith der, pleathe had He the following. of matters gree accordingly as the scene Nearly every Religious Order. time can to time from of meeting sure stories might he near or far. rchbishops and Bishops, many of Order of the Church is representedwherein the Of such countri.?.s, many more or less numerously in Latin Church holds spiritual sway, South the native secular clergy, and America. The oldest established ormembers of the various Religious OrAmerica, being in most respects a der is that of the Franciscan Friars, Brothand Nuns, Priests, "terra incognita" to the average ders, both there ever un- ers, working in South America; and who have been settled Anglo-Saxon and Australian, since the country was conquered by doubtedly offers the hest field for the considers it a privilege to number small host of very good the Spanish Conquistadores some play of imagination of those anti- quite a hundreds of years ago. In Chile the Catholic zealots whose minds are friends among the clergy and runs of Franciscans are all natives of the Chile, Peru and Argentine. ever obscured by Is matters appertaining to the country, and are recruited principalp Visions of "the Scarlet Woman," vary but little in ly from the South of Chile. Jesuits in cupboards and Dominicans Church generally counUsually big men of a very dark Latin-American different the lone " the if And bed. under the suffice to state the con- complexion and heavy cast of feawill it tries, in Brazil Convent the orphan" from in Chile and Argen- tures, they have a strain of Indian is not wrestling with the alleged ditions obtaining for the other blood in them. Although good and good as holding tine tvii'Aeil high or barbed-wire fences regard. pious these Friars hold it to be a same the in Republics imaginathe Convent, ails of the sign of effeminacy to- stave freauentronetries Latin-American the all in of series in a to tion is appealed ly, an I as a conseluenee with a Catholic is Religion State The cruelty, of carefully compiled stories week's heavy growth of blac'i beard the and Church the between Even line. same and or something in the a chilian Franciscan loons rather Conseexists. in Concordat mint -up a State walled the myth of the fierce and forbidding. the arrangemmt this to by ceased quently Peru has not altogether The Jesuits have Fine Colleges and upfigure among the concoctions which State pays for the erection and Churches Dioare from time to time served up to keep of all Parish Churches and salaAmerica. They belong South over' all tine pays and Seminaries, cesan tic'ile the Protestant palate. province of their OrSpanish the to Cutheir and these Priests of Parish ries By a confusion of localities of mainly composed are and der, the to occurred like often has are It rates. Latin-American countries
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