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Reeve D. 292, says, Italy, from the end of the ninth centufS, as We have seen, was become he seat of aiscofd. The ecclesiastical state was kept in long and disgFaceful seryitude by the ambition of rival suretors, by the Marquises of Tuscany, and earls Of Tusculum. By these petty tyrants the patrimOny of St. Peter was torn to pieces and sacriligiously usarped. The popes were not mentors of thetr own capital. Raised by factions, as it happened only by iutrigues, they lost their personal respectabilitf. were often insuited, imprisoned and even murdered by prevailing party. Two sisters, prostitutes, marasia TheodeTa. daughters of tie ieWd MaTchioness of TuseonY, governed Rome b their political influence, and criminal intrigues. To these disorders the popes themselves con tributed in no small degree. After Steven " who died S9l, to Sylvester IT., Reeve says, between the years S9l and s99 there was ena-and-thirty p0pea. Ibis number is clear proof that tae reign 0t many or them was short. aud their end dishOnorable?
 2 Mark. l6th chapter, says, speak ing f0.'C arist: ".I hese signs shall he t0 them that believe. In my name they shall cast our devils, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall la8 hold OH the siels and they be healed. They shall take up serpents and # they drink any deadly thing. 1t shall mot hurt them Now if you can trace your infalible succession from Peter. why can tyou d0 these things2
 i. Mil you please explain how you can trace your infallible succession from Peter through these and scores Of other broken paPal links in the bOaated chain of succession, many Of whom were dfunkatds, i0rGieators, murdeferN, aaQ guilty of the yilast crimes known in the records of deprayity?
 ,. If purity 0f heart, fife and char acter are not prerequisites to holy, infallible. uahroken succession. why not substitute satan himse!i and exclude GhHnkartIs, debaHciters and maraerers from the pontificial thrOne2
 |. When q priest administers the eucharist, anu pretends by five latin words over waters, and twent two words over wine, to create the body. blood, soul and divinity Of Christ, the same that was born of Mary, erusified on tie cross and that as- cended to haven" how may the people know the whole performance is not q stuReadous ecclesiastical farce? See catat hisn of Trent from pages 146 to lT6 inclusive.
 :. How may the people know that when in the act of censecTating the elements of the eucharist the priest is the same, Christ our LoTG?7 The ministers who offer this sacrifice. eoDsecfate the holy mysteries, not in tHeiF 0Wn, but ill the person Ii Christ. (See eatachism of Trent, p. f75.
 <. Ii the pri st iii tlIe cOnSecTati0n lis Jesus Christ" how can 1t De true .tha the eucharist, however. as was observed with regard to other sacri- ments, whether administered by holy or unholy hands. is equally yalid?" fEataehism Of Trent pages 161-}73.3
 3. How may t be known that in the pretenGed eonsecga ton Of xapOrs the priest has the proper intention, the proper disposition of body, of 'smind' the fine flavor of wheat and on the prerequisites to @ valid conservation? fSee Roman Messaie1
 10. How may the people know when they adoFing what they sup pose to 6e "hest" with the wor- ship due alone to God, that they are not w0rshiping a cracker or a wafer made Of four and water?
 II. Why should the eommunicant be fasting from the preceding mid- night and swallow his 'fhash7 with out mastication. (See common Manuals4
 l2 When a Romanist kneeIing at the ''raiI of the sanctuarx" to swal- low apancake, God made by a priest, why "t3ke the commune cloth under your chin and hold 1t as though it were Il small table cloth, spread flat, and your chin resting OH i52 Your head must be erect, well raised, but not trQWn back, your mUuth well open. Your tongue extended so us to rest on the under lip, must form, as it were, flat cable for thereeeptiOn of tie blessed sacrament. To make the tongue hollow or convex, that is rounding OH the lap, is q fault increasing. Itis fault also to let the tounge hang down. Do not look up at the priest, nor shut your eyes either Rather east them down. Sc soon as the priest places the blessed sacrament on your tongue, take it gently aud cleanse the mouth. But why such scrupulous adjustment in swallowing d "host." (See Star of Bethlehem, page l64, St. Vincents Manual page 356, Chailmees Catholic Christian Illustrated. page l01.1
 13. Whatdo you do with theerumbs of the host that fall from the common table?
 II. How long does Peter Dens. the great Catholic theologian, inform us that Jesus Christ remains in the stomach after the host k swallowed?" See No. 2S.
 15. If after consecration of the wine asRoman theolongians teach nothing remains but the forms and appear