But Who Paid for Them?
By Editor
A priest, writing in the Catholic Mirror of the "Church in the Philippines," says:— "Churches, such as many a pastor at home would consider himself fortunate in presiding over, marked the smallest and most insignificant village of nipa huts. The natives could never have built these churches—it was the Order of which the pastors happened to be members that did, at least, the most of it." But where did the "Orders" get their money but from the people of the Philippines? The natives probably never could have built those costly edifices under existing circumstances; their poverty was too extreme, and they could not, nor would God require it, tax themselves to slave conditions to do it. It was reserved for the "pastors" to do this! And yet, even in this, we blame not the priests; it is the system that is evil.