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Show Brazid 'Sadly inNeed of Priests. One of the singular facts with re- gard to the expulsion of the religious I orders from France is that, curiously, I none of the thousands driven out ap- pcUI- lu na ve tnougnt ot going to Brazil. Brazil is called a Catholic country, and its people generally profess the faith. It is a fact, however, that comparatively com-paratively few of them know w hat the Church teaches. There are thousands that scarcely see a priest once a year; many are baptized by a priest, married mar-ried by a priest, and. perhaps, anointed by a priest for death, j Why? Owing chiefly to the reason I that priests are remarkably scarce in i that country. There are dioceses containing con-taining hundreds of thousands with only twenty-five or thirty priests. Many Brazilian Catholics, it is asserted, are members of Masonic lodges. Liberal clubs and other Instruments of un-fajth. un-fajth. Except in the large cities there is little vital Catholic life, and not much Catholic thought -worthy the name. Several Latin-American countries coun-tries need priests but nowhere 1s there more need of them than exist3 in Brazil. Bra-zil. CatholfrTranscript. |