Monday, February 7, 2011

Going native

In the 17th Century the Jesuit Fathers were reprimanded for "going native" in their attempts to adapt to the customs of the various native peoples they encountered in their missionary work. This habit has not died out in modern times. For we may say that they attempt to go native in countries that have fallen into missionary status.
One has only to consider the Americas and the European countries. They attempt to flatter the locals by adopting, and even encouraging, their practices. But they fail to realize that the practices are those of a decadent civilisation. Consider but the rampaging of sexual practices which would have shamed the Romans in their decadence. I wonder of this be not a result of their sexual ignorance. For there is no female order attached to the Society of Jesus as there is to almost all the other male orders. They certainly do not have schools for girls as they have for boys. Whence arises, I believe, a sheer plain ignorance of the feminine mind and spirit.

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