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Show Religions Misery In Eea.idor. j "At present" says an Ecuador corre- j spondent of The Catholic Standard and Times of Philadelphia, "we have the deplorable spectacle of seeing almost all the bishops in exile and the few who yet remain in their own dioceses deprived of their support because they are unable conscientiously to swear fidelity to the constitution and to the law of patronato imposed upon them by the present government in defiance of the Roman pontiff. The reverend canons and parish priests repeat in their own lines on a smaller scale the same unhappy condition of affairs. In the cathedral the solemn functions have been suspended, and the seminaries semi-naries have been obliged to reduce the S number of their students, to limit the course of students almost to the very elements of moral and dogmatic theology, the-ology, and not seldom the curates of the small parishes find themselves in abject misery." The writer says that (Vb't Freemasons are responsible for Fthis state'of affairs. |