The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-10-27

Of July last, by which I formally or
dered you in future not to print any
letter Oh speech, to speak in public
elsewhere than in the churches, to be
present in the Chambers, or to take
part in the Ligue de la Paix,. or any
other meetings, the object of which
was not exclusively Catholic and re-
ligious. My prohibition, as you see,
did not in the least refer to your SER
mons in the pulpit On the contrary.
I desired you in future to devote sole
ly and entirely your talents and your
eloqnence to teachings in the church.
Consequently it was with painful sur
prise that l read in your letter that
you could not reascend the pulpit at
Notrc Dame, with language pervert-
ed by dictation or mutilated by reti-
cence.' You must be aware, rever-
end father, that 1 have never forbid,
den you to preach. that 1 have never
given you any order or imposed any
restrictions on your teachings. !
only took the liberty of giving to you
some counsels, and of addressing to
you some observations, especially on
the subject of your last lectures, as
in my quality of Superiority was my
right and my duty to do. You were
consequently, as free to continue your
p~rcachings at Paris or elsewhere as iii
preceding wears, before my letter of
the 2End July last and ityou have re-
solved not to reappear in the pG..rrlt OF
Notre Dame dc Paris, it is voluntari-
ally and of your own free will, and
net by virtue of measures adopted by
me toward you. Your letter of the
29th announces to me that you are
about to leave your monastery in
Paris. l learn, indeed, by journals
and by private letters, that you have
already left it, and have cast off your
gown, without any ecclesiastical au-
t~horization. If the fact is unfortu-
nately true, 1 would remark to you,
my reverend father, that you must be
aware that the monk who quits his
monastery and the dress of his order,
without the regular permission from
the competent authority, is consider
ed as a real apostate, and Is conse-
quently liable to the canonical penal
tics mentioned in Cap. PeriexIoso,
The punishment is, as you are aware,
the greater accommodation, tate
sententie and according t. rules, con
firmei by the Holy, See, part III,
chapter XXXV, No -, those who
leave the community without authori-
cation, incur the greatest excommu-
nication ipso facto and the note of in
fanny QUi a congregations resident,
prefer a~postasiam, ipso faeto ercomm"ni-
cationem ct mtanlig notam incurrunt.
AS yo IT Superior, and in accordance
with the prescriptions of the Apos
tolic DEGREES, which order me to en-
ploy even censure to bring you back
to the bosom of the order you have so
deplorably abandoned, 1 am under
the necessity OF calling you to return
to the monastery in Paris which you
have quilted within ten days from
the date OF the present letter, obsery-
ing to you that if you do not obey
this order within the time stated you
will be deprived economically OF all
the charges you hold in the Order of
Barefooted Carmelite Monks and will
remaln unuer the CenSuic e~StaOiiSueu
by the common law and by our rules.
May you, my reverend father, listen
to our voice and to the cry of your
conscience /; may You promptly and
seriously descend within yourself, see
the depth of your fail, and by a hero
ic resolution manfully o your
self, repair the great scandal you
have caused, and by that a con-
sole the church, your mother, you
have so much afflicted. That is the
most sincere and ardent desire of my
heart; it is also that which your at
hicted friends, and myself, your ia.
Their, God Almighty, of God, so full
of mercy and goodness
BROTHER DoMINIoUE OF SAINT
JOSEPH.