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 about men and things of which you disapprove; and it has been charged to his account that, because he is opposed to your policy of alhance with the Moderates, he has been called an anticlerical; though only in the sense in which those Moderate-clericals, who, though pastors of souls and good Catholics, found themelves opposed to the intransigent policy of Leo XIII., were called anticlericals.

It is to-day regarded as a crime to utter a word of disapproval about either the proceedings of ecclesiastical government or the dishonourable conduct of those who represent it. But meanwhile, here in Rome and outside it, reviews and journals which breathe all the fiery and headlong zeal of Islam are permitted to bestow upon us the most shameful titles and to accuse us of disgusting infamies, in spite of the clerical robe which many of us wear, and far from unworthily. Truly, a "charity of the kind recommended by St. John"!