Archbishop Nozaleda on Friars and Philippine Property
ARCHBISHOP NOZALEDA, the head of the papal hierarchy in the Philippines, is quoted in Catholic papers as having said, in a recent interview, that “any insistence of the American government for spoliation of the religious orders [in the Philippines] would be quite useless, and besides other reasons on this account, that the goods of the corporations are already alienated. They are no longer in the hands of the religious, because they have been sold to companies, to financial syndicates.” As to the pope’s decision regarding the Philippine friars, he said that Leo would “certainly not despoil the religious orders of their means of support.”