Storia do Mogor 358.1.5

358.1.5

It is equally true that there is to be found in the same chapter a direction that in places where the dwellers in the parish live sufficiently far from the church to make it a great inconvenience to get there, the bishop may, 'etiam' (even) against the will of the cures, erect new parishes. But we do not find that when Christians all live in a city which is not particularly large any action of that kind can be taken. 'In iis vero, in quibus ob locorum distantiam, sive difficultatem, Parochiani, sine magno incommodo ad percipienda Sacramenta et Divina Officia audienda accedere non possunt, novas Parochias, etiam invitis Rectoribus, iuxta formam constitutionis Alexandri Tertii quae incipit "Ad Audientiam," constituere possint.' [But as regards those churches, to which, on account of the distance, or the difficulties of the locality, the parishioners cannot, without great inconvenience, repair to receive the sacraments and to hear the divine offices; the bishops may, even against the will of the rectors, establish new parishes pursuant to the form of the constitution of Alexander III., which begins Ad Audientiam.'] You gentlemen who live in Pondicherry, tell me, I conjure you, whether the Christians are so numerous that four Capuchin friars, all in priest's orders, are not sufficient. Tell me also, if you please, whether the distances between the places are so considerable that the Christians cannot get to church without great inconvenience.