The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

CAADDIAL ANTONELLI'S NOTE TO TIM

SARDINIAN GOVERNMENT.

r To des Kamais of Spiatile, Chasse d'Affaires of his Sardinian
Majesty at the Holy Se..

- From the Vatican, Sept. 2, IMO.
The events Which hail) taken place at Turin after
the death of the cavaliers Pietro di Itosai di Santa Roes, m;.
mister of commerce of his Sardiaian Ilejesty, are a fresh
cause of bitter grief for the church and her august dead.
The violation of the ralesiestical immusity by the aeries of
facts which have prompted the previous protests aids Holt-
nese, which have been hitherto up to the prevent time
totally disregarded, his just been still more aggra-
vated in the capital of the Sardinian states, where
the lay power hag not feared to meddle with
questions which have solely relation to the adminis-
tration of the holy sacraments, the exlesiastical
authority hoeing deemed it his duty not to accord to the
above-mentioned minieter,arrived at the term able life the
sacrament of the Euchaziet, unless he corrected first by a
suitable act the position he had assumed le.fore the church
by taking rut in the promulgation of the anti-aanonical
laws. It has been pretended that this fact involves a crime
imputable to the veered ministers, and in consequence they
have been proceeded against without any regard for their
character, and withcut taking into account the nature of an
act belonging to the most sacred put of the sacerdotal minis-
try. Hence a amiss abated mamas against the clergy, the
vielent expulsion of the curate of Si Charles, and of the whale
religions community to which be belongs ; the arrest of
Monsignor the Arehbishop:of Turin, effected in public, at
the same moment, cad his imprisonment in the fortress of
Fenestrelle, without mentioning the perquiaitions which
took place shortly after in the abodes of the prelate. The
mere enumeration of similar acts seems milli:Lent to show
what a grave responsibility the doers thereof have contracted
before the church. It is for the ministers of the church
alone to decide who ought and who ought not to be ad-
mitted to the participation of the sacraments; and in the
exercise of their min,etry they have to other rules but those
which are gives them by the soparior authority oldie shard,
to which they are in every respect responsible (or the sacred
deposit moiled to theta. To this authority alone belong the
examination and decisionntquestions which may be raisedfrom
time to time upon the piacucalapplication of the rules and
measures of prudence according to which they ought to
conduct themselves in the administration of the sacraments.
This estibliebed, it is easy to see re hat wrong has been done
to the church by the secular power arrogating Le itself the
right of pidgins the acts of sacred ministers in the matter
of secren.ents, and how outraging are the hostile measures
taken in contempt of the sacerdotal ministry, and especially the
new assault committed on the person of hlonsignor the
Archbishop of Turin. The sight of such deplorable events
kerma; beyond bound the affliction wherewith the
health of the holy father wee filled from the deplorable
situation of ecclesiastical affairs in • whelk king.
dos like that of Sardinia. His Holiness, in order
to fulfil the duties imposed upon him by his august
character as supreme head of the catholic chureb,hu o:pearly
enjoined the undersigned cardinal to expostulate and pro-
test formally against these deplorable facts, and to demand,
in his pontifical name, the satisfaction which is due to him.
The holy father, who, in the course of the unhappy vicini-
lodes between the Holy See and Piedmont, has the conscious,
nem of having given a signal ex.mple of apostolic patience,
is willing to hope this time once more that the Sardinia*
government, recognising bow hard are the trials to which
the church boa been so lone subjected in these states, how
injurious me the measures uken, 'slow upon blow, against the
most illustrious personages of the episcopal order, to the
greet scandal of the catholic world ; and reflecting moreover
upon what is established by the holy canons all to Ode of this
'WON, well o Anent to stop a state of things Moompatible
with the religion which this same glummest Mamas itself
in professing, and which it declares that it desires to KW-
We and peewit in the enesulnise subjected so it-41 state of
things so lees irrecosteinshie with the solemn treati.. to
which the holy see, strimig is its goad right, his not ceased to
appeal. Beftelest row excellency to coovey the present note
en your royal at, the undersigned mows the ex-
premien of his
O. vaIIDINAL ANTONSLLL.