and comments, all those doctrines which have been condemned by
John II., Benedict XIV., Pius VI., and Gregory XVL., as well as by
the decrees of the fourth Council of Lateran, and those of
Florence and Trent. _He openly asserts for example, that the
Church has no right to enforce her authority by might, and that
has no temporal power whatever, whether direct or indirect._"

One of the latest miracles is described is the Paris _Univers_, as
follows--in the most perfect good faith:--

"There is much talk at Rome of an extraordinary cure which has
taken a place in the very palace of the Vatican. The following is
the manner in which this prodigious fact is described,--which will,
without doubt, become the subject of a judicial inquiry: 'A young
girl of about twenty years of age, whose family is employed in the
domestic side of the palace, had contracted a bad fever, owing to
the loss of her father a little time before, as well as to the
influence of the season, which has multiplied at Rome diseases of
this kind, and by which a great number of victims have fallen
within the last few months. Notwithstanding the enlightened
efforts of the doctor of the Pontifical 'family,' and of her
parents, the young invalid was soon at the last extremity. The
vice-cure of the palace (which, as is known, is a foundation), a
member of the Augustin order (Monseigneur the Sacristan of the
same order is the titular cure), had administered to her the
sacrament of extreme unction, and had recited the prayer
recommending her soul. Her last sigh was hourly expected. For the
sake of enabling our readers to understand the prodigy about to be
related, it is necessary to state that during the course of the
malady the vice-cure had several times engaged the pious patient
to invoke the aid of a venerable servant of God, of the Augustin
order, whose beatification is about to be declared, and he had
even mixed in the potions given to such girl some little fragments
of the clothes of the venerable man. On the other hand, according
to the usage of religious families, they had carried into the
chamber of the dying person the Santo-Bambino del'Ara Coeli,
demanding of these last resources of the faithful a cure no longer
in the reach of human science to bestow. Let us return to the bed
of the dying girl, whom we find in a p