Latour dispatches Valliant to Albuquerque and, in Valliant's travels, he performs sacraments and admonishes a priest for gambling with parish funds. Latour, for his part, helps rescue Magdalena from the abusive Buck Scales and orders the founding of a girl's school - another important symbol of permanence and the church's commitment to the community. Latour also replaces Gallegos, a corrupt priest who drinks, gambles and left his parish in a "scandalous state," with Father Valliant (p.83).
Latour's house cleaning continues throughout the story, as he is determined to conquer the book's moral setting, as he conquered its natural setting. Perhaps Latour's greatest triumph is when he forces Father Martinez, who had become a "dictator to all parishes in Northern New Mexico" to resign (p.139). Martinez is a skilled practitioner of mass, but an otherwise despicable human being. He is abusive, does not keep his vow of celibacy, has accumulated riches, and may have ordered a massacre. The powerful Martinez makes a veiled threat to kill Latour if he reinforces the rule of celibacy for priests, and a more direct threat to start a rival church if Latour challenges him. Latour, after he recruits a suitable replacement for Martinez, allows Martinez to leave and start his own church rather than permit Martinez to continue to represent Catholicism. Latour subsequently strips Martinez and his follower, Lucero, of their priesthoods. Martinez and Lucero eventually die, a literary device by Cather to show Latour's triumph was complete.
And, in the end, Latour's triumph over New Mexico's adverse moral setting is also complete. When Latour meets Sada, a slave held by anti-Catholic Protestant masters, in a church late at night, he realizes how important his life work has been and that he has built something that the people genuinely need. He arrived in a difficult moral setting - full of corruption and cultural mistrust - that...
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