Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 2 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

CHAPTER XI--Relations between the Mexican church and the

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Pope--Clergy--Monks--Nuns--Monasteries--Convents--Wealth of the church--Ratio of clergy and people--High and low clergy--their history--vices--Monks--Rural clergy--Their character--Conduct of clergy, public and private--Missions in California--Mode of conversion--Monks in Mexico--Zavala's strictures--Pazo's strictures on South American clergy--Church in the United States and in Mexico--Constitutional protection of Catholicism--Duty of the church--Bulls--Paper money, 130