The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
The religious also consider that although the virtue of justice is one
for all, and alike for all, and the efficacy of canonical institution
is also one for persons who are qualified for the same office, to the
secular cleric with the onerous duty of parish priest is given all that
can favor him; but to the religious, while the entire burden is laid
upon him, all his energy is checked on account of not giving him all
which can relieve that burden. This is all placed upon the religious,
for his responsibility for the feeding of his sheep confines him to
a district in such a way that his own provincial cannot, by his own
agency alone, change his district without first resorting to the
ordinary and the vice-patron, to secure their consent. In this way
there is a notable decrease of obedience, and the regular observance of
the rule which he professed is greatly disturbed; and many, continual,
and insupportable annoyances are heaped upon the provincials. The
religious loses in great part the privilege of his exemption;
he remains subject, in so far as he is a cura, to investigations,
complaints, visitations, and penalties from the ordinary; and with all
these burdens he has not the comfort of being secure in his parish,
even if his conduct do not render him unworthy of it, because he does
not hold it in perpetuity, as the secular does. He is not master of the
emoluments which the curacy yields, nor are they in justice due to him
as to the secular, unless he pretends that he is dispensed from the
essential vow of poverty. Then, if the religious is capable of being
a parish priest, and that by title of law, as is the secular, who
has given to justice and to canonical collation such efficacy as with
them to furnish to the secular what is honorable [30] and favorable,
yet has so divided it as to impart to the regular what is detestable,
while yet denying him what may console him?
[Even] if it be granted that the regular is not competent, on account
of his estate, for being a proprietary parish priest, why is it so
strictly required of him to enter the curacy with the same formalities
and ceremony as those with which the clerics enter? Such incompetency
will be the best justification for the repugnance which the religious
feel for being curas in the manner which the archbishop insists on.
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