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 or compulsory celibacy, and with all the fearful liabilities, if not certainties, incident to such unnatural restraint. Religion and morality join in demanding its instant and eternal abolition: but policy in the Roman Church insists upon its continuance. Never was the spiritual prostitute more consistent — Qualis ab incepto.

I will now give the Monitum which has already been noticed.

Cum ad S. Congregationem certe relatum fuerit, Sacratissimos Bibliorum Libros Vulgari sermone nonnullis in locis typis edi, quin saluberrimæ de ea re leges serventur, cumque inde pertimescendum sit, ne, quæ hominum nequam hisce præsertim temporibus conspiratio est, errores sanctiori divini Eloquii apparatu obvoluti perperam insinuentur; censuit eadem S. Congregatio, revocanda iterum esse in omnium memoriam, quæ alias decreta sunt, vernaculas nimirum Bibliorum versiones non esse permittendas, nisi quæ fuerint ab Apostolica Sede adprobate, aut cum adnotationibus edita desumptis ex Sanctis Ecclesiæ Patribus vel ex doctis Catholicisque viris (ex decr. S. Congr. Ind. 15. Jun. 1757. in addit. ad Reg. Ind.): iis præterea omnino insistendum, quæ per Regulam quartam Indicis, et deinceps ex