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that the church byzits origin has a divine
and supernatural authority, and is, more
over, superior to the civil authority. And
reject and condemn the doctrine that the
church is Independent or ought to separ-
ate itself from the state. Children must
be brought up in the above views, con-
demn1ng whatever the church condemns.
And children must be educated solely in
Catholic schools by genuinely Catholic
teachers, and not on any account in I'M
sectarian schools, which are strictly for
bldden by the church.
These dispatches evidently come from
a bitter anti-Catholc source" said Mr.,
Onahan. "The text of the article proves
1t. The Jesuits seem to be charged with
all that is bad in Manilak Even a Slight
investigation of the subject will convince
to the contrary. The Jesuits in Manila
and there are only a few, professors in
the college-have- won the esteem of
Americans who know them.
Il will stake my reputation that no
body of Catholic priests ever issued such
document as the one spoken of in the
dispatches. Look at the commands as
laid down in the pamphlet. 1t does not
take even Catholic to see that the
church never gave to its people any such
message 1t is absurd on its face 1t
purports to lay down principles contrary
to the doctrines of the church The
Catholic religion is the same in Manila
principles
the same everywhere.
THE story says the pamphlet was is
sued without the expressed authority of
the church Then what value has it?
What weight does it have? The story
says that not until the organ of the
church in Manila, Spanish newspaper
called the Liberastus, admitted that the
Jesuits had published the pamphlet was
its authority regarded. seriously
Catholics here never heard of the Lib
erastus. Who knows that it is the Off
cial organ of the church in Manila? Who
knows that the Jesuits issued the pam
phlet? Did they sign it? To many men
every priest is a Jesuit. They use it as a
term of reproach. If the church desired
to make declaration, it won d be through
the archbishop of Manila. The dispatch
seems to have been sent by design for
malicious purposes. 1t is apparently the
desire of some person or persons to cast
discredit on the Catholics, and especially
on the devoted Jesuits in the islands.
1T has been well settled that the Jesu-
its in Manila are most friendly to the oc-
cupation of the Islands by the Americans
We have this from a number of sources
United States army officers have so testi-
fled. Archbishop Chapelle the papal del
egate to the Philippines, has said So
Moreover, that pamphlet is directly con-
trary to the mission of Archbishop Cha
pelle. He was sent there to bring peace
so far as it lay in his power Does that
pamphlet speak for peace? Would he in
view of the purpose of his visit, coun-
tenance the issuance of any such ridicu-
lous document?
Il venture to say that the man who
wrote that article does not know the diff
ference between a Jesuit and a Benedic-
tine or a Franciscan. Why are the Jes-
uits always singled out? You never hear
of attacks upon the fF'ranciscans or the
Benedictines or any of the other orders
ut is time the source of these assaults
upon the Jesuits should be discovered and
something done to curb it. If one were
to believe the pamphlet the Jesuits are
the uncompromising opponents of prog
ress, the foes of liberty of thought, the
enemies of modern civilization. l do not
care to take up every point set forth in
the pamphlet, as that would put me in
the position of being a church authority.
But the spirit of the instructions con-
dennis them for zthe greater part There
is an atmosphere about them not in any
way in accord with the doctrines of the
church. Catholics will condemn the
pamphlet as never having been issued by
or with the authority of the Roman
Catholic church. 1t breathes a spirit of
defiance to the authority of the United
States-a feeling that, l am confident is
not known to the hearts of the Jesuits
of Manila. F"