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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
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
