MODULE 2.1 - THE SECULARIZATION ISSUE: RIZAL AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE PHILIPPINE NATION-II

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• aroused the support of the emerging middle class was the secularization of the parishes

• Regular clergy/friars

• friar orders

• member of a religious order

• Spaniar

• secular clergy

• not belong to any religious order.

• native priests

• classified as secular.

• one can only be a member of a religious order if he is a Spaniard.

• all native priests in the Philippines are classified as secular

• friars were allowed to head local parishes and manage haciendas.

• hortage of priests in the archipelago

• leadership of all parishes to be transferred to secular priests

• rdination of Filipino priests to bolster the number of clergymen

• resistance of the Spanish colonial government and religious orders.

• regime will collapse if friars were taken away from their position of influence.

• growing demand to implement the secularization of the parishes.

• secular and regular priests have rights over the leadership of the parishes.

• secular priests were ill-prepared to lead the parishes because most of them were indios.