The Franciscans sent priests to the frontier to aid in the pacification effort.
It also served as a place to send priests who had "committed some kind of error."
Catholic officials usually send abusive priests to a half-dozen or so treatment centers around the country.
In some of today's documents, the files do not make it clear what action the archdiocese took beyond sending priests for psychiatric evaluations.
The church even sent priests to look for single mothers who would put their children in the institutions.
They were begging the highland Ethiopians to send them priests.
He also sent priests to Canada to study the organization and function of peasants cooperatives.
Harshly, by sending priests to prison and labor camps.
Bishop Viard sent several priests to visit the area and visited himself.
Where should the church send newly ordained priests when they are needed everywhere?