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which you permit in admitting persons to sacred
orders that naturally opens the gates to the en-
trance into the sanctuary of the class of men who
become the source of sorrow to our people"
The Head of the Catholic Church then goes
to censure the local conditions of Italy which per-
NIT the number of priests to exceed the needs of
the faithful. He asks how bishop can answer
for having frequently imposed hands upon men
for whom he could not provide adequate work in the
holy ministry. Nor does he admit the claims and
insistence of candidates to be ordained as a sut-
cent reason for their admission to sacred orders
Such condition does not obtain here, where
priests in great demand. The epistle goes on
to say:
THE priesthood of Jesus Christ for the saliva
ton of souls is not, in sooth, trade profes-
sion which any who has a mind to do so may
claim to enter upon by his own right. Let the
bishops, therefore, i'll promoting candidates. be
moved not by the aspirations or professions of
those who offer themselves but rather by the needs
of the church and by the prescriptions of the Coun
Gil of Trent. In acting thus they will be able to
make right choice of those only who are fit for
the sacred ministry, and reject such show them
selves unworthy by inclinations contrary to the
priestly calling, and, above ALL such as manifest
certain pride of disposition which renders them I'M
willing to submit to discipline"
10 effect this separation of the cookie from the
wheat the Pc11tiF would have rigid vigilance paid
by the bishops to the system of discipline in the
seminary.
Let us insist Venerable Brethren" writes Plus
X, upon that most serious duty before God,
watchful care to promote right teaching and prop
er discipline in your semiDaries. Your priests will
be what you make them by your training of them.
We want the ordinances seriously given on this
subject carried out"
These are timely and appropriate counsAls.w which
should be needed by all American prelates who have
the interests of Christ His Church and His focks
at heart.
Pope Plus. this twentieth century St. Peter
who has been called by his enemies saint. goes on
to emphasize the great necessity of eternal Wig
lance being exercised by the bishops in these per-
tincnt and telling words
The Bishops will exercise the most scrupuIous
11gllance over the teachers and their Instructions
calling to task those professors who go off into
Ya9arles and dilate upon dangerous novelties that
profit nothing"
Under no earthly plea are seminarists to be iden-
titled with public movements that create turmoil
and disturbance. Newspapers and popular period
lcals are to be left to the mutitudes of the world
but the seminaries should not be open to the recep
ton of any brand except those that furnish solid
nutrition for the mind that is dedicated to sacred
objects The latter part of the epistle deals with
preaching. The bishops are reminded that the
function of preaching belongs primarily to their
office and that they are bound to provide good
preaching for the people and priest is to be al
lowed to exhort the focks whose sacerdotal life as
we'll OF knowledge and right judgment not fully
attested
The bishops are to debar priests from preach
ing IL their diocesos unless they possess express
permission from their own Ordinarics.
In sermons the sacred test is to be the absolute
essential and foundation of all dscourses. The
people are to be taught the dreadful danger of
living and dying in sinful enmity to God Polit-
zeal har;ag11cs or any topic savorng of the lee
ture haIl public rostrum to be scrupuously
escbpwed IL he sanctuary. The source Of all the