The Immorality Of The
Priests Is Taken For Granted.
Priests' sons and daughters, of course
not born in wedlock, abound everywhere, and no stigma attaches to
them or to their fathers and mothers." [Footnote:
"The Continent of
Opportunity." Dr. Clark.] Hon. S. H. Blake, in the Neglected
Continent, writes: "I was especially struck by the statement of a
Roman Catholic - a Consular agent with a large amount of information
as to the land and its inhabitants. He stopped me in speaking of the
priests by saying, 'I know all that. You cannot exaggerate their
immorality. Everybody knows it - but the Latin race is a degenerate
race. Nothing can be done with it. The Roman Church has had four
centuries of trial and has made a failure of it.'"
When a person is dying, the Pai is hurriedly sent for. To this call
he will readily respond. A procession will be formed, and, preceded
by a boy ringing a bell, the Host, or, to use an everyday
expression, God, will be carried from the church down the street to
the sick one. All passers-by must kneel as this goes along, and the
police will arrest you if you do not at least take off your hat.
"Liberty of conscience is a most diabolical thing, to be stamped out
at any cost," is the maxim of Rome, and the Guarani has learned his
lesson well. "In Inquisition Square men were burned for daring to
think, therefore men stopped thinking when death was the penalty."
Wakes for the dead are always held, and in the case of a child the
little one lies in state adorned with gilded wings and tinselled
finery.
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