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 it is faith which inspires works with life and that Christian works are not wrought save as the product of faith, you use suspension a divinis as a means of violating the rights of conscience, more inexorable in this than our civil tribunals, which take away civil rights only in exceptional cases, and after giving an opportunity to the accused to prove his innocence. And to think that this abuse of spiritual penalties was combated in the Church in the early Middle Ages, and that, not by a modernist, but by St. Peter Damian, who upbraided Nicholas II., not only for being in this respect more rigorous than civil tribunals, but for overstepping the limits of God's justice and mercy!

Meanwhile Father Tyrrell is suspended a divinis for having accomplished a work of real Christian apostolate. They have even gone so far as to demand of him the violation of secrecy and of personal confidences. Murri is suspended, only for having expressed himself too sincerely