[45] History of Popes, Engl. tran. 2nd ed., p. 19. The learned author, forty years after he wrote the above, in publishing his sixth edition, referring to these words, says that they expressed the view of the epoch, "but I cannot conceal from myself that a new epoch of the Papacy has commenced."
[46] Civiltá, Serie VI., vol. i. p. 172, 173.
[47] Friedrich, in his Mechanismus der Vatikanischen Religion, p. 12, says that these revelations no longer need to come from God, but may come from other persons, especially from Mary.
[48] "It is not allowable either that the temporal authorities should make a law, in reference to an ecclesiastical subject, on which the Canons have not determined anything; or, that through their law they should change Canons that are in existence. Every law of the kind opposed to ecclesiastical rules, or enacted in addition to them, if not desired by the Church, or expressly recognized by her, is hence in itself invalid."—Phillips, ii. 563.
[49] VI. i. 652-3.
[50] The word is generally translated "clergy" in English. But it is not cleri but clerici, which includes divinity students, and is commonly translated in Italian by chierici. In Italy the class which would have been exempted under cover of the student's right would have been very numerous.
The Secret Memoranda of the Cardinals, February 1865.