THE IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD.
FEBRUARY, 1865.
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CONTENTS
[CARDINAL CONSALVI AND NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.]
[THE SEE OF ACHONRY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.]
[THE ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED.]
[CATHOLIC EDUCATION—DISENDOWMENT OF THE PROTESTANT ESTABLISHMENT.]
[LITURGICAL QUESTIONS.]
[DECREES ON THE HOLY MASS.]
[DOCUMENTS.]
[NOTICES OF BOOKS.]
CARDINAL CONSALVI AND NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
[Concluded from page 167.]
This laconic answer produced on Napoleon an extraordinary effect. He started, and fixed on the Cardinal a long and searching look. The man of iron will felt that he had to deal with another will, which, while it matched his own for firmness, surpassed it in the power that ever springs from self-control. Taking advantage of the Consul's surprise, Consalvi went on to say that he could not exceed his powers, nor could he agree to terms in opposition to the principles of the Holy See; that it was not possible in ecclesiastical matters to act as freely as was allowable in urgent cases wherein only temporal matters were concerned. Besides, in fairness the rupture could not be laid to the Pope's charge, seeing that his minister had agreed to all the articles with one single exception, and that even this one had not been definitely rejected, but merely referred to the judgment of his Holiness.