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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

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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