The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

NG' APRIL' 7, 1860.7

unwarrantable ends, by invoking him or promising
unto him obedience, or doing other things in which
his name or works play a part :
" ' Who have occupied, or occupy themselves in
making experiments of necromancy, or of any kind
of magic, with the abuse of the sacraments, or of
the sacramental vessels, or of things sacred or
blessed :

' Who, not being priests, with sacrilegious
audacity have usurped or shall usurp the right to
celebrate the holy mass, or have presumed to ad-
minister the sacrament of penitence to the faithful
of Jesus Christ :

" Who have abused or may abuse the sacrament
of penitence, or the place of the same, contrary to
the apostolical decrees and constitutions :
" Who have held or may hold secret conven-
tides or meetings in prejudice or scorn of, or con-
trary to, the holy Catholic religion :
" ' Who have made use of, or may make use of,
heretical blasphemies against blessed God, the most
Holy Virgin Mary, or against the saints, or have
committed or may commit any act of contempt or
of offence against the holy images; who, notwith-
standing the solemn vows made on their entrance
into any religious order approved of by the
Church, and, after having taken holy orders, have
contracted and contract, or may attempt to con-
tract, matrimony :
" Who, during the life of the first wife shall
take a second, or during the life of the first husband
shall take a second, or shall have attempted or at-
tempt to do the same :

" Who have impeded or may impede in any way
the office of the Holy Inquisition, or who in any
way shall have acted in contravention of the bull of
Pius V., which commences " Si di protegendis :"
" Who may have composed satires or diffused
writings against the supreme Pontif, the sacred
college, superiors, ecclesiastics, or against the regu-
lar orders, or who may have composed or published
writings in any manner whatsoever, in which is
any abuse or profanation of sacred words :

" Who, without the required license, shall keep
in their possession writings or printed papers con-
taining heresies, or books of heretics that treat, ex
preesgo, against religion, or who shall read them,
or print them, or cause them to be printed, or who
shall introduce or diffuse them under any pretext
or colour whatever :
" Who, without necessity or license, shall have
eaten or given to eat meat, eggs, or dishes made
with milk on forbidden days, in contempt of the
precepts of the Holy Church :--
"' Who shall have induced any Christian to em-
brace the Jewish faith, or any other sect contrary
to the holy Catholic religion, or shall have prevented
in any way the Jews or the Turks from being bap-
tised. It is also declared that, in the statement of
cases specified by us as requiring to be revealed to
the Holy Office, there are not excluded the other
cases belonging to its jurisdiction, comprised in the
sacred canons, decrees, constitutions, and bulls of
the supreme Pontiffs. Still less is tho present edict
to be understood as cancelling any. other canonical
apostolic provisions, or any other edicts Which thall
have emanated from the ordinary authorities or from
the inquisitors;and it isfurtherdeclared that those who
shall not denounce the guilty, as commanded by the
present edict, shall not be able to obtain absolution
from the excommunication laid upon them until they
shall have, as required above, with due legal form,
revealed the guilty individuals :
" ' And even should the term of the month as-
signed, as above, elapse, there will always remain
the obligation to reveal and to denounce, under the
same penalties, until the person in possession of the
information shall have effectually revealed and de-
nounced the guilty. And in order that the present
edict, with its commands, both general and special,
may become known unto all, we order and command
that it be affixed in the churches belonging both to
the secular and regular clergy. And in order that
no one may affect ignorance of the present orders
and evade obeying them, we enjoin on printers,
booksellers, custom-house officers, excise officers,
porters, landlords, innkeepers, and shopkeepers, all
respectively, that they shall keep fixed up a copy of
the present edict in their respective printing-houses,
bookselling establishments, custom-houses, town-
gates, taverns, inns, and shops, and that, too, in a
public place, where it may be seen and read by all.
" EXHORTATIONS.

" The principal, nay the only object of the tri-
bunal of the Holy Office being, as has been said
from the commencement, the glory of God, the ad-
vancement of the holy faith, and the salvation of
souls : we, therefore, after having commanded and
ordered as above, do now paternally exhort all
those who know themselves to be guilty of some
crime relating to the Holy Office to present them.
selves before us and our vicars, or before the ordi-
nary authority of the place, spontaneously, before
being anticipated or denounced by others ; and to
confess with all sincerity and integrity their errors
and their failings, assuring them that, provided they
have not been with the due legal forms previously
accused before some other ecclesiastical tribunal,
they will be received with bowels of charity, and
treated with the singular mercy peculiar to this
holy tribunal; aad will then, without any expense
and without any public penance and punishment,
be absolved and let go.
" SPECIAL ORDERS.

" In compliance with the orders specially given
to us relative to the printing, the introduction, the
sale, and the diffusion of perverse and prohibitive
books, and having a special interest that, in the
cities and places of this our jurisdiction, there shall
be preserved that purity of faith which, through
the grace of the Highest, presently exists here, we
order and expressly command that no one shall
dare to print, to introduce, to sell, and to publish
books within and without the cities or other places
subject to us without these being subject to the re-
vision of this Holy Office, and of those whose duty
it is to superintend the same, under the penalties
established in the sacred canons, in the general and
and particular decrees of the supreme holy congre-
gation, and in the apostolical constitutions with
that view enacted and promulgated, and, in parti-
cular, in those of Clement VIII. and Gregory XV.
Moreover, in compliance with the orders, decrees,
edicts of the supreme holy tribunal of the Holy
Office of Rome, as well as with the constitutions
and with the papal bulls, respectively published and
promulgated in reference to the Jews, especially in
what regards intimacy with the same ; we order
and command that no one shall dare to transgress
the orders and injunctions specified in the same,
under the penalties therein expressed and threat-
ened.—Given at the Holy Office of Pesaro, on this
15th day of September, 1841.
(Signed) " FL FILIPPO BERTOLOTTI,
Inquisitor-General.
" ANTONIO SEVERINI, Chancellor-
General of the Holy Office.'"