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SOCIETY


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SOCIETY


General Santa Anna, nor was the prospect favourable in the revolutionary condition of the country. Four of their number returning in 1854, the mission pros- pered, and in spite of two dispersions, 1859 and 1873, it has continued to increase in ninnbcr and activity. In August, 1907, it was reconstituted a province. It has now 326 members with 4 colleges, 12 residences, 6 mission stations among the Tarahumara, and a novitiate (see also Mexico; Pious Fund of the Californias).

Gerard, Stonyhurst Centenary Record (Belfast, 1894); Cor- coran, Ciongoues Centenary Record (Dublin, 1912); Woodstock LeUers (Woodstock College, Marj'land, 1872 — ); Ceorgelown Unuersity (Washington, 1891); The First Half Century of St. Ignatius Church and College (San Francisco, 1905); Dohr, Akten. lur Gesch. der Jesuit-minsionen in Deutschland. 184^-72 (1903); BoERO, Istoria delta vita del R. P. Pignatelli (Rome. 1857); PoNXELET, La camp, de Jesus en Belgique (Brussels, 1907); Zara- DONA. Hist, de la extincidn y restablecimiento de la comp. de Jesus (Madrid. 1890): Nippold, Jesuitenorden von seiner Wiederher- atellujig (Mannheim, 1867).


General Statistics of th


E Societt of Jesd


3 fort


he Beqinninq of 1912.


Assiatancy


Province


Priests


Schol- astics


Coad- jutors


Total


Italian


Rome

Naples

Sicily

Turin

Venice

Total


190 154 113 150 215


103 109 61 62 59


94 86 71 4S 97


3S7 349 245 260 371



822


394


396


1612



Austria

Belgium

GaUcia

Germany

Hungary

Netherlands

Total


310 686 221 695 79 280


108 393 133 247 51 135


186 221 1.56 344 69 131

1107


604 1200

510 1188



199 546



2071


1067


4245


French (dispersed)


Champagne France Lyons Toulouse

Total


377 514 449 417


221 139 168 167


133 171 176 139


731 824 793 723



1757


695


619


3071



Aragon Castile

Portugal (dis- persed) Mexico Toledo

Total


537 563

159 128 278


264 361

91

118 123


435 410

109 87 196


1236 1334



333 597



1665


957


1237


3859


English


England

California

Canada

Ireland

Marj-land-New

York Missouri New Orleans

Total ■


391 151 153 196

354 356 132


201 136 120 116

353

272

82


124 107 100 55

156 162 41


716 394 373 367

863 790 255



1733


1280


745


3758


but fallible men. Sweeping denials here and an injured tone would be misplaced and hable to mis- conception. As an instance of Jesuit fallibility, one may mention that WTitings of nearly one hundred Jesuits have been placed on the Roman "Index". Since this involves a reflection upon the Jesuit book- censors as weO, it might appear to be an instance of failure in an important matter. But when we remember that the number of Jesuit -nTiters exceeds 120,000, the proportion of those who have missed


Missions of the Society


OF jEsrs IN 1912.



Mission


Province


Priests


Schol.


Coadj.


Total


Europe


Venice

Austria Germany Germany Sicily


5 41 29 5 8


11

12


4

30 32 2 7


9

82 73'





Syra and Tines (Greece)..


15


Africa


Lyons Belgium England Portugal

Toulouse Champagne


55 17 47 17

60 39


7 7

1

5


16 14 33 18

18 12


78 38 80 361

83 51





Madagascar, Reunion, and


Betsileo (Madagascar)


Asia


Lyons Lyons Germany

BdgfL

Belgium

Champagne

Toulouse

Portugal

France

Champagne


39 85 88 43

136 16 14

105 20

148 64 4


1

10 16

6 88

6

69 12


15 54 21 11 32 3 3 24 9 28 15


65 149


SjTia



Mangalore (India)


60


Galle (Ceylon....


25

18


Trincomalee (Ceylon)




Nankin (China)

S. E. Tcheu-h (China).... Japan


188 79 41


Philippine Islands

Flores, Java, and Sumatra. S. and E. Austraha


Aragon

Netherlands

Ireland


90 61 68


4 6 17


62 10 17


156 77 102


North America Indian Missions (Canada) North Alaska (U. S. A.) South Alaska (U. S. A.). New Mexico, Colorado, and


Canada Canada California

Naples Mexico Castile Maryland- New York


11 15 6

62 11 49

18


3

2

6 13


16 9

26 12 37

2


30 26 6


Tarahumara (Mex.)


23





20


South America


Castile

England

Rome

Germany

Portugal

Toledo

Toledo

Aragon


93 21 76

111 50 63 50

172


51

26 27 2 10

23


58 1 51 66 39 27 26 127





N. and Cent. Brazil


153




Ecuador

Peru

Chile and Argentina


90 76 322


Grand Total 16,rA5

Apologetic. — The accusations brought against the Society have been exceptional for their frequency and fierceness. Many indeed would be too absurd to deser\-e mention, were they not credited even by cul- tured and literary people. Such for instance are the charges that the Society was responsible for the Franco-Prussian war, the affaire Dreyfus, the Panama scandal, the assassination of popes, kings, princes, etc. — statements found in books and periodicals of some pretence. Such likewise is the so-called Jesuit Ooth, the clumsy fabrication of the forger Robert Ware, exposed by Bridgett in "Blunders and Forgeries". The fallacy of such accusations may often be detected by general principles. A. Jesuits are fallible, and may have given .some occasion to the accuser. The charges laid against them would never have been brought against angels, but they are not in the least inconsistent with the Society being a body of good


Total 3531

' Note.— Figures for 1911— those for 1912 not available.

the mark cannot be considered extraordinary; the censure inflicted moreover has never been of the graver kind. Many critics of the order, who do not consider the Index censures discreditable, cannot pardon so readily the exaggerated esprit de corps in which Jesuits of limited experience occasionally indulge, especially in controversies or while eulogizing their own confreres; nor can they overlook the narrowness or bias with which some Jesuit WTiters have criticized men of other lands, institutions, educa- tion, though it is unfair to hold up the faults of a few as characteristic of the entire body.

B. The Accusers. — (1) In an oft-recited passage about the martjTS St. Ambrose tells us: "Vere frustra impugnatur qui apud inipios et infidos im- pietatis arce.ssitur cum fidei sit m.agister" (He in truth, is impugned in vain who is accused of impiety by the impious and the faithless, though he is a