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6 pesca The Eoumonical Council Assom- bled in Rome. Council of the Vatiean and First from St. Peter. and Stoam Fleets A Sransit of the Hisrs: Commission, Government of the Church, His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth and the Members of thé Sacred College. The Temporal Power and Position of the Temporal Princes. Py re Tottering Royalty Seeki Eternal Centre. WHAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED. Tho Syllabus or Platform of th and Moral Discipline, emble in Rome an Ecu rehical The pret Obedience to the Pontifical sums Pape Piu ‘whey will waving jc and Asie tre of Ca Qlilef Bisnop or y ticular fo. OF tho wu, bis comm: i authority to prea to conir and to disci routine duty of 1 fellow man, and ihe co This Council is called the Vatican aad will pass into histo h of t Nice inthe ye he twenticti Fear 1545 a ninnted its sitting three hur x years since, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1869.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. Spe ‘aa " wae whom sovén hundred and sixty-six are resident pa- | sina, Milan, Modena, Monreals, oa! Oriateno, | of Rhodiopolis (én parckus, Vioar Apostolie . iran, Palermo, Pisa, Ravi Rossano, | Patna, triarens, archbishops aud bishops; tho“ether two | Riri Cueuins estar St. Severna, fiona, Sor: | _ ot. Bduardo Jest of Jesus), of hundred and twonty-clght have nominal sees t PA | Penro, Spoleto, Syracnse, ‘tare Nazaret, oe ia Syria ih csi Bend Bishop Pe . tidus Mfldeliwm, and are either cours preiates, nan- | Turin, Urbino, Udine, Veroolll, Ve Suaboprion ‘Kang, 202, 68, Eduardo Harmaz (Armenian Mechitarist of clos, provincial delegates or spostolio viears and | “1... archbishopric, 17: Beéanson, Bors | Venice), Aronbistiop of Syrace (in missionaries m foreign parts. Tne following claast- | qoaux, Chambéry, Lyons et Vienne, Rheims, Stefanos St Philippi 5s efanopoll, Arc! (in h pareienay Greek Ly poe at Bones, eppo Galli (of tlie Cong, of Aron beagR ¢ * Patras (Slew . a gle Ma’ Bighop of Gezyra (et:the Syrian jureh). ’ 2. Leon Meurin, Bishop of Ascaloi rei asaniouo Vicar of Bombay, bin fecha Summoned, but Excased. All persons duly entitled by canon jaw and Charch precedent to seata fm the Council have been called to attend, in obedience to the citation of the Sovereign Pontiff and in accordance with the termsof the sacerdotal oath taken by them at tho moment of their consecration or investiture, It 1a not supposed, however, that 1,000 persons will be qctuaily enrolled, We know, indecd, that letters have been received in Rome from sixty-three archbishops and bisdons, couveying expressions of the profound regret ‘of the several writers at thetr not being able to mees the Council, but alleging motives suMeciently rea. sonable to be accepted by the Pope as legitimate and just, being principally age, infirmities or the dia- tances vf their sces or missiona. Such letters are from Monsignort Boskovany}, Bishop of Nitria, in Austria; Purpo, of Pozzdoll; Naaolli, Archbishop of Pale! Cicelol, Bishop of Trapani, Pompignac; Cardinal Billet, Arcabishop of Chambdérvy; Thomas ks:—Tuere are | Aix, Albi, Auc®, Avignon, Bourges, Cambray, tt rg hagas f ita archbtanops | Rennes, Rouen, Sens eb Auxer Toulouse et Nar- twelve parriarchs, seventy-Ave boaue, Tours. Bisvopries exclusive of tue Colonies), Of the Latu: rito, twenty-five resident archbishops Of | g5, Aitferent rites, thirty-five archbishops ér partibus, Spain (inclusive of the Baleario and Canary t ‘dent Latin bishops, forty- | Isiands).—Archoishoprica, 9: Burgos, Sants ‘Gre six hundred and pine resident naua, Saragossa, Toledo, Targagona, Sevilla, Vwlen- fivo resident bishops of diferent rites, one hundred | ga, Valladolid. Bishoprics, . » bishops tr parttous, Among the 6 mileer Serco nee patra ee Me msores, 5 r Bee TIGA). A gos are precisely known, threo are Erage, Brora, itshoptics, 1. Lisbou, ars old, CWO are ninew, twenty are | je gium.—drckvwshopric, 1: Malines. Bishop- eighty-five, forty-six from seventy- | rics, 5. 3 ahs RH oe to seventy- 1 eon — anc nishonetes 1: Utrecht, Bishop- (and sixty-four from sixty to sixty- ‘ser ont Britain nd | Le ee 6: and thirty-three from fifty-five | Westminster (2ngiand); magh, ‘usm, y, one hundred and Atty from fifty to fifty-five, Prk laagsanay Malta, Bishopries, Eagiand, 13; two from fortygve to fifty, forty-three from ‘Ausiria.—Archbishopries, 14; Agram, Coloczs, Torty to for . twenty-four frem thirty-cignt to | Brlau, Fogaras (Greek), Gran, Goeritz et Gradisca, foriy, thi thirty-five to thirty-eight, seven | Lemburg jone Latia, one Greek and one Armenian), metre} esa bots spies nts Olmurs, Prague, Saisburg, Vienna, Zara. Bisuop- from thir five, The ages of one handred | pics, (amoug which are seven of tho United and tien! resident bishops and one hundred | Greeks). iN and five in partibus, are not yet exactly ascertained, |, + uss f— Arohbishopriog, 2: Cologne, Posen et Bishoprics, With respect to the proportion in which these Archbishoprica, 2: Munich, Bamberg. spiritual pastors, exclusive of prelates in partibus, s shopric, 1: Freiburg, are, distributed over the surface of the globe, there A eararaa are in the States of the Church six arch lisheps and Afty-eight bishops gland, Ireland and the britah ),—Arechbishoprics, 3: and ninety-t timers wh fivo to oigh 28 tk Bye, one huwar counell wa 1 by Popo Paul th continued under Juiiua the Tha Fourth; th % the two hu a Salut Petcr—accepung Peter's m aiter the Saviour—rho was vested with the triple Usca, the Keys anit word in tae year 146. Tho prosent assemblage will bo more largely attended, and conseq) tly more univer: Uo, than any of those which have prec! the latest previous occa sented then been ered 8 o-day America sends a fu to Romo—ten archbishops and over s answering from North Amecica alon tne epis Montus the special correspondents of the Ban. neodat a ‘eut parts of ibe globe re- ported to our readers the commencemes episcoy igration towards the £ jater, an i later, plished uh ehronic.ii 3 and de- votees in t and taelr Anat aggregation 120 such sonrees we have assur of the safe arrival of s New York in we He the two ¢ 2 andthe I clerics, Aroi one of the Orst gers of the rehbiskop oled the fact how othe Bisuop of Honclaln, in 3, rode from San Praucisco to iron overlana ne, the first n Tao I raulroad which ie had from the § summons lias been Perth, in Westero Australia, ana from the Dunedis, New Zealand, and Melb aud other parts of Australia’ ne seorated in the newiy discov 4 territory; the last uamoa Gravricls, from the Quif of Oa to Spercer gulf, remaining a vast antipodal terr tnoognata vue day the last Council of the hurch onsignor Hassoun, the Armenian Catuolic left Constantinople with ten bishops on the a y Rome to take part in the Coun- Oil, While ignataries have trayelied Rome- Wards from the india Seas and the far-oi wles and varied climes of the earth’s extremeat bounds; from California, from Central Asia, from the slopes of the Lebanon and Rocky Mounta’os, from Halifax and Sew Brunswick aud Newfoundiand, from New England aud Old England, Scotland, Prussia, North Germany and South Germany and the S ‘inavian countries, as well as from Ireland, ano France, and Spain and Ausila, and the ancient “/aithsui’ Catho- Io Janda, His Grace Archbishop Mauniug, of Westminster, England, will be aided by at Joast tw ishopa, {reland sonds four archbishops and ¢ ty-four bishops, and the revived sees of Scot 1 will be represeuted—facts which appear to a justity the prices’ sertion of the Jinal Wiseman when Le od must have been firmly planted tm the jac ugustin when the hacked and burnt and charred stumy of the tree gives out auch green and vigorous saplings,” Zbe Catholic Charch—Iia Organization and Government. At presens, the cone! y days of 1669, om the last day of November, the Oatholie Church was con- sutater o Pope and Aity-seven cardinals, serv- {ng in Rome; the digerent pairiarchats, archbishop- riea and Y sin other parts of the world nume bering 1,004. he jast number are enunierated all the prolates of the Oriental churches which are in Communion with the See of Rome—viz., those of the Armenian Catholics, the Maronites, the Greek Catho- lies, the Syrians, the Bulgarian Greeks and the Chal- deans. Here tt must be borne iy mind that the word fe tn no longer signifies, a8 in ancient times, heaa of one of the largest divisions of the arch, but is merely o title, Thero are twelve Pptriarchs in the Catholic Church who bear tho titles viz., the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antloch, Jerusalem, Venice, the West tudiya, Lisbon, Avtioch of the Greek Meichives, Antioch of tho ma ronites, Antjooh Of tho Syrians, Babyion of the Chaldeans and Cilicia of the Armeniaus, Of the hierarchinal aggregate of the Catnoltc Ohurch, ali over the world, sithough it 1s geucraily set down in round numbers at one thousand, the oxnet tolwl is ning Dugdred wad mingty-four, of roliog (Wnited Greek) Warsaw, Poland, colonies, ten und ffty-etght; Austria, ten and forty- I na ib bein , two; Bavaria, two and six; Belgium, one and tive; rid’ Vicariates | Apostolic, 6, Brazil, one ana eleven; Boltvia, one and three; Chile, 1 Patriarchate, 6; Aptt- one and three; Argentine Confederation, one and Brown, Bishop of Newport, England; 8. T. Waish, Kildare and Leightin; BE. Walshe, of Ossory; De Moura, Archbishop of Braga, in Portugal; Manzo, Bishop of” Guarda; Stefanowize. of (Samosate (ue pariious), Suffraran of Posen; Oliveira, of Angola, Agores; Arbclaes, Archbishop of Santa (administered by a dishop in amunstrater Apostolic); Constanti- riarehate, aaministered by a Provicar five; Two Sicilies, twenty-six and ninety-two; Ger | popie Latin Fé “di Boy 3h if ra ee nO} pe ota; jada, Bishop of Pasto; Gonin, of nian Duchtes, one and three; Rquator, one and five; Set ovat Constantinople, Armenian Archbishop Port d@Esyagne, bp ney Tene Valsk, of ‘London, Canata; Lynch, of Charleston, U. 8; Becker@ of Wilmington, U. 8.;. Rosecranss of Colombo, U,. 8,3 Laers, Of Fort Watne, U. S.; Fech: &.; Grasse, of St. Pau), Minn., U.5.; Martin, of Nat- chitoches, U. 3.; Blanchet, Archbishop of Oregon city, U S.; M. A. Blanchet, Bishop of Nesqualy, U. .: Gatnza, of Caceres, Philippines; Polding, Arch- bishop of Sydney, Australia; Quinn, of Batiurst, Australia; Murray, of Maitiand, Australia; Salvado, of Porto Vittoria, Australia; Polanski, of Premyzl, Austria; Gaganetz, of Fperiea; Suffragan, of Stri- gouia; Navarro, Apostolic. Vicar of Hu-nap, China; Chauvean, of Bonaatonolt in partibus, ‘The Apostolic Vicars of Yunan, Foklen, Kiano-St and Xantung, in Cuma; of East and West Cochin China; Tonquin, South Tonquin, East Bengal, Colombo, in Serge Spain and her colonies, eleven and Afty-on0; United G,-cé,—Arebbishoprics, 2: Corfu, Naxos, Bishop- States, seven and forty-eught; France and her | pos, 5, ‘key.— Arehbishoprics, 18: Aleppo eighteen and 5 -five; Greece, two and ASIA, — Turkey.— Archois : gntcen and seventy-five; Gree vata, one | United Syrian Arehbisopne); Amadie (Chaldeas one and Seven; Guarssmals, rchbishoprie)s Antiocl, 4 Patriarcha (1 Latin, 1 and four; Hanover has no arck- | Meiohite, | Maronite, 1 Syrian); Babyion, 2 (1 Obal- Holland, one and four; | dean Patriarch, 1 Latin Arcubisuopric); Cilieta, 1 Are meuian I ‘oh; Damaseus, 3 (f Maronite Arch- 1 Syrian Archbishopric, 1 Greek Arch. istered by the Greek Patriarch of Mexico, tires and fifteen; Modena, one and four; bisnop but three bishops; Pern, one ar and seven; Persta bas one arcabishop but no bishop; are a ur eee ee hes ana Portugal, four and tweaty-three; Prussia, two and | 10.7 “Armenian, Syrian). Bishoprics, Latin rite, 25 six; Russia, two and twelve; Kingdom of Sardinia | g . 9; Ol and the Lombardo-Venitlag provinces, eight aud 6. a0 a, 4; Armenian, 9; Syrian, 8; Ma- al, $8. rica, 4: 1 Arminian, 1 Latin (con- thirly-six; Switzerland, five bishops without any ‘cted at peesecut With Babylon, Turkey), 2Unai- } Tafnapatum, Agra, Can: the eastern’ district o archbishop, sithouga the Pope ts going to create an | Geum YP i; : the Cape of’ Good Hopes tamatipas in Mexico; archbishop of Privbourg; Tuscany, four aud eigateen; Jndia,—Arenbisbopric, 1: Goa. Bishoprics, 3. Arizona, Colorado and Utah; Surinam and ‘Tati. The Bishops of Druispare, Germanicopolis and Troy, in nartious; and the resident Bishops of Chiust, ‘Tuscany; Queretaro, Mexico; Zante and Cephalonia, Ionian Isles; Nantes, France; Kulm, Prussia: and Linares, Mexico. —=—. Scientific Analysis of the Assemblage—Mortal Corporal Wants of the Prelates. Tue venorable congregation in the Eternal City ‘will, as our readers can easily imagine, present most excellent material for ethnological study, while the cause of the grouping, as well as the fact of tho identity of the assemblage on one day—the Feast of the Immaculate Conception—at the Papal centre will Vurkey, ive and five; Venezuela, one aud four, A eel Tie dslands).—Arch- ‘Total, 136 archbishops aud 631 bishops, China.— Bishopric, 1 oa Ret vet a the first day f November'there AvEiGaA.—Archbisnopric, 1: ers. oprics, bape cir = banat atone 2) Portoguese possessions, 6; French possessions, 4; were in tue Ciuurch one hundred aud tweaty seven Englist possess.ons, 1: Spanish possessions (tn- vacant dioceses, a very large proportion of them | gindiog the seo of angler), a (eee ei Italy, he: ario AUSTRALASIA AND POLYNESTA.—Arel opric: Delia Ra eahy) HU NARS One PAT hed Te | snoy, 1; Blskoprics, & Vicarlates Apostolic, 7; the gious of the globo, Lisbon, for instance, Zante, | P.oars'of Mangareva, Tahiti, Paumotoo; the Sand- Cephalonia, Armidale in Australia, Auckland in uh Islands; the Marquesas Group; Central Ocean- Now Zealand, Antioch, Beyroutand Babyion. Seven fen, eeAmanoter MARA New Caledonia; Mala glear-g > provine ere ‘ nesia @ icrones Vicat-aposiolic provinces were also Vvacant—Con- | "rng igrest French alialyais of the congtitnent parts stantinople, Southern Pekin, Honan tn China, Hy- | of the Conncil—maue by apecial Frenoh order, tn erapad, Abyssinia, Nt aledonta 4 Navigator’: Paris—presenis the following 8! ment:—In addi. deradad, Abyssinia, New Caledonia and Navigator's | one ere our bodies walen discuss and act under Islands, There were thus one hundred and thurty- atford ample matter for philosophic comment, pul- the presidency of the Cardinal Legates there are four vacant sees, which, added to the ftty-elght al prbetr First—That of ioe Bisons fusions pit deciamation and political disputation hereatter. Whose bishops Laye been dispensed from atteading, | excusationum, charged with examining the validity | Rome will not doubt, however, im matters of belief; will raise Of the motives asignod for Not attending sent bY | but Rome, being still carnal, must be fed, and the enuinber wanting at the Council to De | the absent prelates; aud secondly—that of the eccle- i ninety-two. Every ef however, | stastics judices querelarum, charged with receiy- 1} up some of the vacancies im- | ing the complaints or demands of those present, yea: be ai a 3) mr Next are tne secretary of the Coancil, Mgr. {0 the representative bistoDS | Fosslor and his assistants, | Algr. Jacobiat, of » to Lake their seats, so that the | the Propaganda; the eapet vealrne| apschte 1 pers0 @ sen thy and the advocate amiile Santori; — after. 5 pegrlost: ra apices mana warag come the custodes nobiles, the Princes pion may still vary | Orsini and Colonna; the Apostolical Protonotaries rom that which Is here | acting as nolarii. Mara, Pacifici, Cololombo, sim- eon, Bartolini and Pericoll; Digg jet the " AvHi Santi and advocate Pallotini; the serutatores, fongregazione Romana bas decided, | dizrs, goradini, Nardi, Poliegrini, Diaitt, Christofori, Pope, that the one hundred and | Manta, de Falioux, da ooerny. pod ee he Blo ait rie: c ven ‘4 oh motores, Dominicis, Torti an wippo Rallis NODES. SAORUS Perini Ayia are | the magisint ceremoniarum, sixteen in number; the ed at the Connell | gsevmarores, ten i number, Mgrs, Koll, Naselit, existence of this first necessity brings up the ques- tion of the Council in its mortal, corporal and soclat aspect, The prelates from abroad will, no doubt, bring & vast deal of hard cash, with any amounc of enduring fealty, to Rome. We may be permitted, bowever, to inquire, with very great respect, whether: they can obtain the “worth of their money" in the shape of the solid necessaries of life in the city? The veneravle gentiomen will have travelled long, very lengthy distances, and what between the enjoyment of the change of scene and the refresntug miuences of fresh and sea air and a temporary Gommingling with tae worl 4, will be m firat rate condition to epjoy good diners. ‘the Bnglishwen, Irishmen and Americans particu. ers not being much given to exchange their roast Uundre has been made to being enamer of callt e role of insei thirty-four i in Italy alone, shail be represent by th respective Vicars General, This will be an | Stoner, &c. To the above must be added the minor | beef and plum pudding and “brown stout” for mac- important 6 n of strength to the numerical | functionaries, such as the scribe protonocarii (short | caront and “ill ressed fishes” and the light vintage mattanpepede re rivers}, eantores, ostiartt and cursores, A [ of Campagna, They will also be ‘entitled to enjoy force of the assemb! jon made by tao Pontitical-Chamberlain fixes | the gastronimic absolution of the via‘oribus Veitum The Mor of the Church will be repre- } at 1,291 ine number (i he having a rigutof ad- fe uch Fe praites oor dnteodnoes wie aoee seuted 2nc b mission to the Council. appy effect in narratiol ial anol. vy mired Abbots, Fhe | Mey are aa follows! Abbpit to the home of the widow Gleadiuntug, number of monasteries for males in tha Catholic | gerdinals without episcopal jurisdiction. ld 18 estimated at 8,000, having a } Cardinal prelates, patriarch, archiishopi ting up about 117,000 persons, walle abpotn aaiittun the monastic and other religious retreats for females | cjerais of orders. calenlated at 10,000, with 189,000 inmates or | (ime above have a 30 persons, Of the male monas- te.) wns have 60,009 members, the 009 and the Jesuits 8,000; Con- Nursing the Sick, 6,600; Beneaictines, n3, 4,000; Carmelites 4,000; Trapp- | motat........06 09; Plarists, 2,000, and the Pontifical and Roman Hespitalitica, The Pope, in his world-wide solicitude has, how: ever, already taken this part of the subject into con- sideration; looking after the material as well as the immaterial. His Holiness some time since appointed commission charged to provide for the accommo- dation of the*vast episcopal accumulation, and the mombers have published a note of what they have been able to do. Some of the paiacea of Rome and other houses secured; tho use of thé Bishops’ ere given gratuitously, but others are burdened with heavy rents, for the pay- ment of which the Pope throws himself upon the Tiverahty oj the faithful. The Canontca Vaticana, it appears, 1s prepared to receive thirty-one bishops, the Casa Cartoni eleven bishops (1,200 soudl rent); the Tordei Speccht, restored by the Pope at an ex- ge Of 3,00) scudl, elgit bishons; the Palazza Tor- onia, eight bishops; the Apostolic Palace of the Quirinal, eighteen bishops; Vila Massimo a ‘Tesmini, Six bishops; Palazzo Gabrielli (600 send), four bishops; Casa Luzzi, in the Piazza Pia, one bi a the Secretary of the Conacl', Monsignor Fester, the Casa det Lazzaristi, at Monte Citorio, many bishops, gregations for 5,000; Dominic’ sts, 5,000; L: Redemptorisis, Tho Sacred Co'lege—Fathers of the Council aura! Present in Rome. The Pope-and Episcopate, The following is @ Mst of the members of the A careful analysis and classification of the ruiing | sacred College who, under ihe Pope, constitute the anomted execulive and ministerial constituens ele- | athers of the Council: — ments of the Catholic Church of ths present day sets CARDINAL BISHOPS. forth the fc resalts as to its governing body | _1. Marius Matici, Bishop o1 Ostia and Velletri, and extent: ‘ Dean of the Sacred Soler ; 4 Pius IX., Jolin Mary Mastai Ferretti, bora at Sini- | Pope. ag) fe 13th M 925 ory , %. Louls de S. Ftieppo © Sorso, Bishop of Pastrine, Gagila the 13: of May, 1703; reserved in pelo the | vice Chancellor of the Church, ‘ 23d of Deceinver, 1839; published Cardinal Priest, by 4. Nicholas Clarelll Paracciant, Bishop of Frascati, Monaste of Campomarzo, 4 rince the title of SS. Peter aud Marcellinus, the 14th of } Sec tasy of oe cn iataaaeae gad Graud Cuaucellot Tancellottt and Signor Sauve, of tho Hotel December, 1449; ciected Pope the 16th of June, 1848; | Of tie Orders of Knighthood, e Mmerva, will board and lodge each two, free crowned the 21st of eame month and year. is tS Pietro, Bishop of Albano, President | of cost, and Madame Theréya Volonna will extend similar hospitality to one. For lodgings alone nine- igen convents Rave been thrown open and thirty- two private houses been fitted up at the Pope's per- sonal expense. The French Am»assador will lodge with the Bishop of Bayeux, Prince Corsini will en- tertain au archbishop, Duke Salviate will be respon- sible for two bishops and Duke Graziolt has offered to do the honors for one, the Bishop of Macao, AL most all the religtous houses will board and lodge certala bishops of their own erder gratuitously, re were in November, 1969, fifty- nee boa von Reisach, Sishop of sabvina, n 7 >| on t refect oi the Hudes. Sealing ohana apy CARDINAL PRIESTS. sts and and eight cardinal 7. Fabius Asbuini, Prefect of the Sacred Congrega- Italians by birth, seven | tion of Ecclesiastical Imuiuatity. Croatian, 8, Alessaudvo Barnabo, Prefect General of the we | Affairs of tho Orlental Kite. 9. Guseppe #ereitl, Legato of Bologua, Presideat s.—Accord. | of the Couimiasion of Subsidies, ing 4 the number of 30. Pietro al Silvestri. Very many bishops, espectally tnose from Germany, 1. Carlo saccont, Pretect rem e tu Patrlarchates, Archbishoprics and prics in the | of the aaisene OC renee oF the Sup. " @ Tribunal } have exp 1 thelr determination to board and lodge at their own expenso, Cat 2 amounted to 1 _— all une prelates o communi nian Ca' $ includes 12. Angelo Quaglia, Prefect of the Sacred Congro- t are in | Sation of Bishops aad Regulars, pel 13, Antonio Marlo Panebiance, Grand Pehiten- Arme- | olary. the Greek Catholfca, J4. Autonio ce Luca, Prefect of the Sacred Congre- 3 and the Chat | @atton of the Index, = gs Pie 16, Culseppe Bizarrl, Prefect of the Sacred Congre- @ation of Indulgences and Kelics. ‘ lowiig Ust contatus the names of alt ones Giovauat-Laitista Pitra, Librarian of the Holy archbishoprics an he numpe: vlahopric Church. eR atte ui the nuuder of blakoprica tn | "yy "ipo Maria Guldl, Archbishop of Bologaa, every country:— 18, Guscavas Adgipuiss von Hohenlohe, ios, 7; New 12 Luigi Billo. » Cinclanati, St. L 20. Lw Bonaparte, Oregoa City, 2 re ly tre ‘The Gioceses (archbishopric 22. Law jo Baril. re divided anion the tevep 23, Gui pee Berardt, Pro, Minister of Commerce, Province of Baitimore, Md, | Fine ces nadustry, Agriculture and Public Works, at on sp ittabars Tachaond, a RY ah nowai DBACONS. x, villadelphia, Pittsburg, Richmond, Cal ‘36 rauton, Wheeling and W fiefugtoa (Del 25. Giacomo Antonelli, Secretary of State of h! tes apostolic of North, Carolina and } Holinees, President of the Councti o Miuistéra, rie gads over the Duscriot of ohuin bie Tech ot the A eapolip Pal es * ae of ne Co , svyigud, Pennsylvania, Delaware, | gregation 0: » Prosi eglal eo out” Croll, Georgia, fon regation for the rebuilding of the Basil ice of n section of Florida, Province of ‘ani. Ohio, — embr: ihe dioceses of 26, Proapeto Catertnl, Prefect of the Sacred Con- Cieveiand, Columbus, Covington, De- | grewation of the Council and of the Special Congre- Why Thoy Meet. The prelates mect in Council in obedience to the summons of the Pope, conveyed in the folowlag:— LEYWER APOSTOLIC OF HI8 HOLINESS Pore PIUS 1X., BY WHICH DHE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL 18 PRO- CLaIMED, TO BE AALD At ROME, AND TO BEGIN ON THR DAY SACRED TO TH IMMACULATE CON- CBEPTION OF THE VIRGIN MOTHLY OF GOD, IX THE YEAR MDCCOLXIX, Pius, Bishor, SERVANT OF THR SERVANTS OF CoD, IN PeRPErUAL REMEMBRANCE: ‘Tyo only begotten Son of tip Bternal Father, bo cause of the exceeding charity wherewith He ha joved ua, la order that in tho fulness of time He might deliver the hte! ad fuman race from the bg of sin, from slave} the devil and from the dark- ness of error, with woich through tho fauit of our first parent teh Jong been miserably oppressed, coming down from tia heavenly throne, aud, with- out parting from His Fatner’s glory, being clothed in human Navure from the Immaculate and Most Holy Virgin Mary, mi ted a doctrine and arule of life brought Gown from heaven, gave witness to the same by so mauy admirable Works, and deiiverea imself up for us an oblation and victim unto God in the odor of sweetness, And .—Archbisnopri Ni comprises the dioce Ene, Harnad Savaanan, Se wita the vica troit, Port Wayne, Loulsy Marquette and Vin. | gation for the revision of the Provincial Councils, fore, havin: congue a ascel cennes, including the Sta f Ohio, Indiana, 27. Theophile Meriel, President ef the Council of angie ta a aitat i + haeel cy Miclugan and Kentucky. Province of New Orieans, | State. the Father, he sent the Aposties into Wie work La., Comprises the dioceses of New Orleans, Galvea- 28. Francesco Fentini. to preach the Gospel to 7) he gave every them the power of ruling @ jurch which had beet acquired and established by His blood—which is the ee, snd ed ort of the trnth—and which, enriched with heavenly tressures, si to all Bations the safe way ion and the light of trae doctrine, and like to ee ip 18 $0 borne upon the waves of this present as, while the world eg ten (preserve unhurt ali whom at (s ton, Little Rock, Mobile, Natchez and Natchitocnes, 29. Domenico Consolinis, Prefect of the Propa- and Includes the States of Louisiana, Alabama, Mia- | ganda, Bissippl Texas and Arkansas. Province of New 20, Eduardo Borromeo, York includ: Boston, Bi Newark, Po the dioceses of New Yor; Albany, 81, Annivale Capalit. n, Buffaio, Burlington,; Hartford PATAIAROHS, ARCUBISHOPS AND BISItOPS, nd, Rochester auc includes the New 82. Rogero Mattel, Latin Patriarch of Constanti- ea, Ban ioaed a che ot eg Pro- } nople. City Includes the dioceses of Ore- $3, Gul o Valerga, Latin Patrlar i ALY, vores ee eS Aged vie a Hak ss * his a pv jumbia, Province of Louls . Alessandro Sacmar: Archbishop o! oeses of St. Lonta, Alton, Chicago, | sus sin partibus). west P sill reen Bay, La Crosee, Milwaukee, #8, Gaiseppe Cardonl, Archbishop of Edessa jin a 14, Bt. Josepn, St. Paul, thé vi- } partivus.) ‘c of the Indian Terrritory, Nebras- 36, Alessandro Franchi, Archbishop of Thesselo- ido and Montana, and embraces | nica (in partibus), 31 O71. Piewro Gianeiti, Archbishop of Sardis (in par. jax, S@rm. 89.) But in order that ry Ment of that same Church ge ny always proceed Tightly and tn order, and that the whole Chnstian people should ever stand firm in one faith, doctrine, charity and communion, He both promised that he Would limself be present with her even to the con- summation of the world, and chose one out of all, pas whom He appointed Prince of the Aj uols, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kan- 81 gota, Dacotah, Now Mextco, { tus), , otah, Ne x a i here on e 5 a Coloradg, / | tae Incian Territory. Pro. 38, Xavier de Merode, ArchbiMop of Melithone aad came f tho Church: that bash ta toe pr ‘ot Vinee of comprises tho dioceses of | (in parttbus), Secret Almoner of hia Holiness, Tank and Donor, and in the Amplitude of cl and San Prane ‘ Valley, Monterey and Los An- 39. Saivavore Vitelleschi, Archbishop of Osime and | most full authority, power and jaregena, ge es, and embraces th tes of Callfornia and | Cingoil. hould feed the lambs and the sheep, strougthen Ni x shel and all te x} east of the Rio 40, Antonio Vaccarl, Archbishop of Colossl.gn | bretbren, and rule the whol Churely, and 4 a jo ed partibusy ‘the Keeper of the ot ven and the arbiter of meh pegecege 41. Vincenzio Tizzant, Page moet Nisilye, in | things to be bound and loosed, so that the determ!- ialltax, * ols Mesopotamig (/n paribus), Onlet oner Of the | nation of his judgments should abide hereafter even Michoacan. Bist Pontifical Army. in heaven, because tho unity and integfity of rae Sano 1 42, Pietro Castellacei, Archbishop Of Petra, tn | the Churctl, and the goverament tndteor, ag estate AvchUishopri¢, 1; Guatemala, | Mesopotamia. era ished by the same Christ, ate for ever’ to remain Bishoprics, 4. 43, Guiseppe Angelmt, Archbishop of Corinth, ‘e ae eaien Jrioesions—Arokbishoprte, 1: Santiago | in Meaopotamia, vicegerent of inp Vigaroge of ciara ot ete, i ary ee op iiadie Riu French Possessions.—Bishoprics, 2, 44, Blayo-Antonto do Labastidn y Davalos, arch- | Gna primacy’ posmemed By Peter over the WHOe Ontled Stiles of Coloindia.—Asrohdishopric, 1: | bishop of Mexico, Santa Fé de Bogota. Bishoptics, 6, 45. Luigi Passavaill (of the Minor Capuchins) Veneaued,—Archbishopri¢, 1; Caraccas, «Bishop: ie of Icomum (in oatgeut 4 - Ns (a rea, 3, ¥ Euador.—Arehbishoprio, 1: Quito, Bishoprica, 2 ton ee-Marie Bailles, ex-BighOp of Lacon, tD perifota—arenblahoprie, Ui Chuguisaca, Bisbop- | 47, Francesco Marinelli, Bistiop of Porphyria (ti 08, 3. partious), Sacristan of hia Hoilne: Péru.—Archbishoptio, 1: Lima. Bisto fe . Pape a Mpenbal CoOeitnon. teat rorles, e. 48, Papardo del Parco, Bisaop of Sinope (in partl. Dus). Ayres) —arenbiahopelo, 1: Buenos Ayres, Bisuop- 49, Guiseppe Novalla Af tho Reformed Minots), \ im ious) Brazil.—Archbishoprig, 1: Bahia. Bishoprics, 11. = caoph Peaster: isho ‘Oe St. Myppollte (Aus+ Me Cite sroubdighopric 1s BanUAgO. Bishoprics, % | tria), Secretary General of the Counc! Cruguay.—iushopric, 1. 6. bee eae oe Of Canopas (in Pause, ertacits, Orherstore’ the “Romeo. Pontigm exercising. tho fore ext Wer and care of feeaing y the nirusted to them by Christ mise ou erson Of blesses Fou, nave Ta ure All labors, to de ib from the rising to all peopl and ri acknowledgé the teaci 4} in the of tra a Gera fen ie onWear! V6 Lal Line of the ¢ and lear Para bishopric, 1, ‘Silla! 4 Pt, hath Tepublies- brohbisnopric, 1: St Do. Bente a wd ranges ite Re ee a epg vi] —Taly a —, ki rt th ta ft Se sce | Hat MAS Arne‘ , ua, 148) . iy Ghictl, Conza,’ Cosenza, Fermo, tae des co, | 66. of Silt dpa" capoape, Lage ie | oc shit fe Yao Moar GoBualbo, Bane know and pdore Councils; eer Joaua Christ, we turn oar eyes and oar panscest ar gaeing uniiogstrepgti with iy Creer) appear te uern ot td, er | St, ea Ber wa Sop comeenaiotann | teodin aaa air pres | rn ev cau eo ar morals of the Now, it is well known aod man fearful a tempest she Church how great are tug doctrine aud veneravie anthority of ts Holy See, trodden under foot; spisedt; ecclesiastic.l ed; bishops, aud most excellent men devoted to the divine ministry, aud men rem, olic spiris, nave been in every way harassed; rell- gious communities have been destroyed; impious books of every kind, pestilennal journais, and most pernicious sects of many forms have been on every Bide spread avroad; and the edacation of unbappy youth has been almost ev few places comuitted extreme grief, and Lat of ail o losg Of souls Which cau never implety has been so propagated, vogesia er with cor- ruption of morais, wnvridied license and the conta- gion of ai kinds of depraved opinions, of ail vices, and crimes, aud vioiation of divine and human laws, that not ouly our most holy religion, but human go- ciety itself, ia miserably disturbed and sMicied. Ainid 80 great & Wass, therefore, of calamities wherewita our heart ts overwiielmed, the suprome itoral ministry divinely entrusted to us requires at forth our strength to re- urou, to procure the salva. Mon of the wuole Nock of our Lord, to repress tho leudly attacks and endeavors of those wild labor Lo overturow irom Ube foundation both civil soctety and, if 16 were over possibl We, indeed, by God's help, taken away from worse, in no Hence, to our own ood men, and with enough deplored, ¢ we more and mort pair the runs of the Church herseif. om the very com- @. Poniuicate, have jog duty of our ‘uty office, to raise our voloe in many Oon- Jocutions and Apostolic Letters, and ua. ly to defena, wita all ze hoiy Church, entruste Lord; to defend the rights of lis Apostoitc See, aud of justice and truth, to detect the treacheries of enemies, to codon thelr errors and false doctrines, to proacribe tue sects OF Lmpiety aNd LO Watch over re provide for the salvation of the Lord’a whole jock. But treading in the footsteps of our tilustrious predecessors we have thereiore thought 1t opportuns Ww collect into @ General Council (as we bad long wi:heu) all our venerable bretbren, the bishops of the whole Catholic world, who have been caiied to a share of our solicitude. These veuerable vrethren, indeed, indamed as they aro with singular love towards tue Catholo Church, distinguisuea for emni- bservance wwards See, anxious for tno salvation of souls, ing in wisdom, knowledge and lear: together with ourselves, Most sad condition both have nothing nearer at ‘the cause of God to us by Curjst ualy ut the sacred and civil aifaira, hears than to commu- us snd to combine thelr coun. ot God, the tn- ard Lhe greater the be vine worabip, tue tegrily of toe fait eiernal saivation of men, the discipune as well a8 the salutary and solid mstruction of the ciergy, the observance of eculesiaatical laws, the reformation of morals, ihe Onristian eda. cation of youth aud the common Every edfort also must 1D, all evils may be removed trom the Church aad from civil society; that unbappy wan dorers may be brought back into the straigut path of truth, Justice and saivation; that, vices and errors being taken uway, Our august religion and 103 salutary doviine way receive Iresh lve over all the earth and increase dally in extent font on gration, robity, — ju charity and au Cnristian virtues may aboun secular and reguiar, eace aud concord made that, by nO one can deny that the power of the Catholic Church, and of tier doc- tring, not ouly regards men’s eternal salvation, but algo benelits the vemporal wellare of the peopie, aud that it promotes them truo prosperity, oruer dnd tranquillity and also the progress and soiidity of humuno sciences, a3 the annals of sacred and pro- fang history clearly suow by conspicuous facts apa constantly and evidently prove. And since Christ our Lora wonderfaily reires! e by those woras, “Where two or three are gathored togewwerm my name, there am 11 the miast of them,’ therefore we cannot doubt but chat nis Council He will voucusale to be at band 10 abuudance of His diving grace, in order that we may be abie to deterinine all those things whioh ap pertain in any way to the greater advantage o His Unurch. Having, therecore, in the huuyity of our poured torth night and day most fervent ers to God the Father of lignts, we have judged that this Council should by a! Wherefore, relying and res' God himself, Favi Sud of ihe Blessed Aposties let We also exercise on earth, wil assent of our venerable brethren the Cardiuals of the Holy Roman Church, by these letters we pro- claim, Bhnounce, ConvoKke Bud appoint @ sacred Ecumenical ant General Council to be held im this holy city of Kome, in the commg year 1300, in the un on tho oth day of the to the lmmaculate Con- recreates and cou. and Faul, which ‘the counsel and ‘Vatican Basilica; to be. month of December, sic: ception of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God; to be continued and, by the help of God, to be completed and finished tor bis glory and for the salvation of the whoie Christian people. and command that from every place all our venera- bie brethren the patriarchs, archbishops and bisa- ops, our beloved Bons the abbots and all ociers to whom by right or by privilege power has peen granted of sitting in General Councils and declaring their opinions therein snali come to this oumenical Council proclaimed by us; requiring, exhorting, monishing and none the less @ajoining and stricily commanaing them, by force of the oath which tiey have taken to us and to tins Holy See, and tn virtue of holy obedience, and under the penaities ordinary enucted and proposed by law or custom in vie cele. bration of Councils against those who do not come, tat they be altogether bound to be present and to take partin ais sacred Council, unless they happen to be detained by just impediment, which, nevertue- obliged to prove to the Synod And We therefore will less, they will be through their legitimate prociors. And We ate borue up by the hope that God, in whose hands are the bears of wen, propitiously granting our petttions, will, by [is uuapeakabio mercy and grac supreme princes 01 ss CAE all tae 8, and especially Vatiio~ tic rulers, knowing daily more and more that tho greatest biessings redound to aman society trom the Catholic Church and that sie is the iirmest foun- dation of empires and kKingaoms, not only will throw of our veneravlo brethren the bisbops, and others above named, coming to this Council, bub Will even Willingiy favor and ueip, and becoies Catholic priuces, most studiously co-operate in ali those things which may teud to the greater glory of God abd the good of tue said But in order that these, our letters, and all that ia contained therein, may come to the Knowledge of ail whom tney Cem saeae th , ny te wien ol x aps, Hot all to witha to. be hominally mate ka sally reached, we Wiil apd command that they shail ‘be publicly read in a loud voice by the of our Qourt. or by some public Prawn im. tho Lateran, Vatican, and Liberian Patriarebai @ when the rmulitude of ther to hear mass; and tit after the read- tng Of tue letters they shall be afixed to the doors ne Ht ages of tho ry (rete fn the pus 33 that ype read aud known by ail, t exposed; and tha’ removed, no impediment in the w: opie is Wont to said churches, to u uancery, in the shall for some time i beg When they shall havo For, by ti oud adixing” vi the the &pace aud anixing of in the same way a8 Ax presence. pies stam, with the fy oer therefore, tufrmge this iment of ancement, ve repent and But if any 01 know. that he Alm@iguty God aan of t St, Peter's, in the year 1863 of tion, on the third day before tho Uae 284 your of our Pontifivate, 4 4, PICS, Bishop of the Catholic Church. aforesaid we will tata” apd = whoin- our levers com shall, after two monius fro; lt had we command and pubitc notaries or pened by theia, geal of any rsh Of accle- died our Lord's Inca ommuanicants in the East--Protestante and Oiher Non-Catholics Invited to the Fold, Jn the discharge of bis Pon} Pins the Ninth issued two Papal icttera, Septem! 5 and 15, 1668, the former letter céntatmiilg an invita tuon to the Council, addressed to the Nastern Bishops, the latter requesting Protestants and non-Catholica hese important historical documents "Ain ee wits Popn! Invitation to cal functions ion RURONES OF THE IN ComuoNION ign of. Hivine Prova . le tehoug any merit op ong tA Wo co 80 ase religion aad to | feoure the salvation of those who hatsoever too Communs disoipline correct WwW, eat separa: erie? of the Holy Koman Cuareh which is extended to ‘all by how world, For this oause, from time shaken, frst days of our comb to. on evils with witch | supreme Pontificate, we have aduressod fos $ the bitter enemies | the affection of our heart in words of peace and ol, and her sav- | charity, Tkough these words have Not as yet at ‘and the supreme | tained the end we so ardentiy desi we bave nev assailed and andes we pone oS eoing our cee ene sere ail sacred things bave beonde- | vent prayers ry most gracious and ions have been plunder- | beneficent Author of salvation and peace, who hata Wrougut salvation in the midst the earth, aad arkable for their Cath- | who, coming from on high to siow in its All, anvounced it at His birth by the mtuistry of an- gela to wen of good will, taugat it whilo He dwelt ee a ee We have » by the our vi brethren the cardinals of the holy Roman Chureb, au nounced and convoked af Ecumenical Council to be celebrated in Kome next year, on the 8th of the month of December, the day consecrated to the Immaculate Conception of tha. Blessed Virgin , mother Of God, We ralse our voive again once more to you, and witn all the power of our soul we pray you, we warn You, We conjure you to come Co this aa your ancestors came to the Council of Lyoms, held by our preaecessor, the blessed Gregory X., oF piocions: memory, and to the Council of Ftorence, held by our predecessor, Kugenius (Vi, of happy memory; that the laws of ancient affection may be renews the peace of our Fathers, that heavenly aud ealutary gut of Jesus Christ, which dine hos weakened, may receive u new Vigor after a woe wigs Of aillictio: and the black darkness of & pro! d division, a the serene light of the desired ul Bbine be fore the eyes of all. May tuls be the sweet fruit of benediction with which Jesus Christ, the Lord aud Redeemer of ug all, may console moat dear and ima spouse the Catholto Church, and moderate y her tears im these miserable times. All | divisions — be! wholly etteoed voices, once discordant, unite to praisc with perfect unany imity of spirit the God who willeth not that schis' should exist among us, but has commanded us, by mouth of the tle, to speak and think the same vhing; and may PSrpetual thanksgiving pe rendered to the Father of Mercies by all His saint3, and espe. clally ue those most glorious and ancient tach and doctors of the Kastern Churches, wilen from th heignt of heaven they siiall see union restored and re-established with the Apostate See, whieh 18 the centre of Catnoiic truth and unity, tat union which they labored with so much warmth and such indev fatigabie zeal to promote by their doctrine and ex+ ample during thew early life, because tue Hol Ghost was sled aoroad in their hearts, tho charity Him who has broken down the wall of separation and has reconciled and brought peace to all by Hig blood, who chose tuat unity should be the agn by which to discern His disciples, and who addi to His Favber tho prayer “1 pray that all may be one, al 8 we algo are one, Given at St. Peter’s at Rome, the sth of September. th the year 1863, and of our Pontificate the twont LEITBBR APOSTOLIO OF HIS HOLINESS TO PROTEO TANTS AND NON-OATHOLICS.- Prva 1X., BY DIVINE PROVIDENOE Porw, TO Ath PROTESTANTS AND OTHER NON-CATHOLIOS:— . It is already known to you ail that we wbo, with- out any merit of ours, have been raised to this Uae thedral of St. Petor, whereby the supreme governs ment of the Catholic Church has been confided to by our Lord Jesus Onrist bimself, have judged the season Atting to convoke around us the bishops of. the whole ena. ane to unite them in the Koumen- foal Council te be held next year, to the end tai together with these same veuerabie brethren, sembled by our solictcude, we may adopt that coun. gel which May bo most opportune and most neces. gary, whether to disperse the darkness of so sage spreading errors which, to the great damage gonls, aro everywhere obtaining and increasing perversity; or to establish every day iore an miore, ty increase in the people confided to our vigilance the reiga of the trae iaith of justice aud the peace of Goa. ‘Srusung to the loving and intimate love of wie by which these same venerable brethren are wonde! fally united to us and to this Apostolic See, whic} ‘has never 1alied during the whole course of gus Pol titicate to atford signal proof o/ our faithfulness, love and devotion, We entertain tho full hope that, with other general Councils in past ages, $0 Ecumenical Council, thus called together by ua, ma: by the favor of Divine grace, bring forth fin an sountane iratt to the greater glory of God and the eternal welfare of men, Sustained, thereiore, by the hope, and moved and Kindled by the love of our Lord Jesus Cariat, who gave His Jife for salva tion of mankind, we cannot refrain on the occasion of the forthcoming Council, to direct our fatherly And apostolic woids also fo all those who, while Fecoguizing the same Christas the iedeemer and loryiog in the name of Christian, yet do not profess Sho teue falth of Christ, hor follow the communion of the Catholic Church, and var we do admonishing, teachers of us and this amg, sid, benefit of Tueaus be aagembled. | exuorting and praying the! consider seriously, on tne authority of ject whether they be in the path preached by ou and Holy Givst, | the agiue. Jesus Christ our Lord as «bas whtol leadeth unto itte eternal. ‘Aud ofa truth po one can aeny that thissame Jesus Christ, in order to apply tO ail general Heed humanity the iruits of His redemption, built 2 hl onearth upon the rock of Peter the only Ohu: which 13 one, cacholic, holy, and apostolic, and her conflded every faoulty necessary to prose! wholo snd inviol@ole the deposit of faith, and teach this faith to all people, and countries, ani nations, so that all m Talgnt, by baptism, be united to His mystical body, and be preees eG and in ber be brought to perfection in the new life of grace, without which mone can ever merit or arrive at eternal life; and that the said Church, which cot stitutes His mystical body, may las! and prospe! strong and imperishable, until the consummatio of ages furnish to her children the fall armor ftn, ‘And ow, Whoso meditates deeply on the conditio: in which the various phases of religious society An themselves at the present day, divided against ono another, and separated from the Church bord and which, from the time of Jesus Christ our Lord a the Aposties, has, by means of its legitimate pag- tors, without interruption exercised, even as tt now exercises, the Divine powers conferred on her by our Lord Christ, must at once reilect that no ong phase of this soctety in particular, por ail conjoined, can In any manner contribute unto that one Catholis Church butt up by f ge Christ Himself and which Hie constituted, and whose perpetual existence He wills, For deprived of that living authority estab. lished by God to Himself to teach the things of faith and discipline unto Inen, and to direct and govern thoi in those matters wilco portion to life eternal, they are Continually enmigne in their doctrine. Every one can esany comprehend and clearly discera ‘that this ts vitally opposed to that manner of Chur which God established, in whica it ia fundainea that the truth stould continue ever stable, subject ,to no Variableness, a8 & deposit to be guarded by tie Church, for which very purpose the perpetual pre- sence and aldot the Holy Gost was pee to her. Neither is any one ignorant that from these dissensions in doctrine and opinion arise also civil Giscords; or that hence originate also the Innumer- able secta and divisions which are muitipiying them. gelvyes every day to tho great detriment of both the Ohnrek and civil republic, ‘Kneretore, whoever recognizes that religion as tho foundation of buman society must also recognize and confess what violence has beon exercised upom civilsociety by such divisions and discords, and Low deeply the negation of the authority set up by God to govern the impression of man’s intellect and to direct the acttous bot of his public and private life bas produced, excited, add foiented the lamenta- bie perturvations which at this moment are so totaly Trending in sudder every nation and every people, Ali those, then, -who have not the unity and the faith of tne Catholic Church (s Anais, Epis, LXI, to OUXXIIL) should embrace this opportunity offered them by the forthcoming Couticil, by means of which the Catholic Church, to whose communion thetr forefathers belonged, presenta a now evidence ie Wa 5 a own ieart, rigo to deliver theulsclves from. tate in Which they can have no conviction of their own \yation. saveitner will we omit to offer fervent prayers to Lord of all mercy that He should be pleased break down the wall of m and to di the mista of error, and so bring them back into the bosom of our holy Mother Church ih which alono are the pasvures of Ife, aud which alone preserves whole entire the doctrine of Jesus Cyrist, are non can be Apparivors asilicas, copies of od. Publication puvitcation gad bound read in that jon, statue, } alond 4s to dispense the iyateries of heat ennall attempt | “te te bob git behooves in tne exercise of onr Aposti fh ray hod 1a- | ministry, confided to ns by Jesus Ohrist Peta oly Apostles | oxerciso'thig among tho othor duties of a faitufal shoptierd—to follow aiter and hold to our bosom in the ponds of fatherly love all the sheep of the fold of Curist, Hence it is that we lave sent this letter all Christians diyided from us, and by its again, and that urgently, exlort them that the! make haste to retara to tat ouly fold; for from th: bottom of our soul we desire above all their salya- Hon, bearing in sind the account ba) shall one be called to give forthem to onr Inago if we ha’ not faldiled all that ia us lay y Beepare ate straight for them the way that leadeth unto life, in Srote pager god pipplication of ours, with thonksgiviog let them be assured that wo anal not fall with ali Our might, by day and 4 mat to pray humbly to the Hternal Shepherd o! jus that te may be pleased to pour out on them the abundance of 4iis gifts and of His heavenly grace. Finatiy, ince-~though without merit of our own— We aro emied to exercise the oftice of His Vicar om earth, we shall continae to stand ready with arms spread wide, desiring with ardent earnestness the return of the erring calldren to the Uburch Catholic, that we may receive them with all Jove into the henge their Heavenly peciee Be enrich theng from His exhaustiess treasury. po ged ‘his most wrgeh the au ton of to-be-destred yetura to Prince atthe iho Cathotte vert fepends, not only the salvation ve con uj ofeacl one em, I an eae Most principally, itd rock on ae the serene? of the wi stinn society; nor cant 0 feel Bi ly tte by aver Meet et, rue poave until ore ana at el ag at Kone, ist, Peter's, this 19\h of Septem. who beak the eh, 1609, third year of our Pontifoate, intry o1 ps we — em all to ve or Goueral Counctls—What ia Meguing of the Tormt St. tho thembérs of the body cannoe ate heat, “I hayo no need of theo; ond it cy , @ Maxim of tho canon law that an Gt Genoral Conino of tho Catholte UANODA ADA LTOALEE Of Chriptendom eaunct Le le», the peace which He loves and would ove loved oy