https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/121252 2026-04-14T22:21:46Z 2026-04-14T22:21:46Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129455 2024-12-02T08:40:26Z 1848-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Jesuits of Naples. A letter upon the recent expulsion of the Jesuits from Naples Abstract: The illegal and unconstitutional expulsion of the Jesuits from Naples has roused such general and loudly expressed indignation among all classes of persons in this city. The flagrant manner in which both the laws and the Constitution of the country have been violated has been so well and ably pointed out by all the public journals that it would seem almost an impertinence for a foreigner to give any public opinion upon that subject. It is known to all, and lamented by all, even, I should hope, by the guilty perpetrators of the act, that the laws of your country have been insulted and broken under the very eye, and almost with the connivance, of the executive Government; and that your newly acquired Constitution has been violated in two of its most sacred articles. One of these articles declares the Roman Catholic religion the only religion of the State, which religion has been insulted in the persons of a lawfully constituted Body of its Priests. The other declares that the homes, persons, and property of Neapolitans are inviolable, except by a regular and public process of law. All this I need not urge; but there is a subject connected with this sad affair upon which I am tempted to step out of my proper place and thus publicly declare my opinions.; I have looked in vain for some more appropriate and worthy champion than myself to come forward and give the lie to the vile calumnies circulated about these reverend Fathers, so unworthily expelled from their country. But they shall not go, please God, without one voice of kindness following them, without one word of respect for their many and great virtues being spoken in that city, whose highest and most enduring interests they have so laboured to advance.; This voice of kindness, this word of respect, I venture to address to yourself. As a distinguished member of the Neapolitan Bar, you have, I know, mourned over the gross infraction upon the laws of your country; as an intelligent and zealous advocate of constitutional liberty, you have, I know, mourned not less over the grievous manner in which that liberty has been trampled underfoot. A firm and conscientious opposer of the Jesuits at a time when they were in power, you have yet shown so much moderation in your opinion of them, and so much sympathy with them in their unjust expulsion, that I feel assured what I am about to say in their defense will receive a fair and impartial consideration with yourself and with all who are like-minded with yourself.Not that I agree with you entirely in one respect, though perhaps for different reasons. I agree entirely with you in thinking that the order of the Jesuits had far better leave Europe. I suppose we should both agree in saying that the existence of the Order, in Italy at least, is no longer consistent with public peace; we might differ as to where the fault lies; but we should again agree in thinking that as men of peace, they had far better voluntarily leave these countries. You would add that if they do not leave voluntarily, the various Legislatures should pass such laws as should at least break them up as communities; and I do not say that under the present state of things, I disagree with you in this... [Excerpt]

1848-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129452 2024-12-02T08:23:56Z 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Reply of his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman to an address presented by the clergy secular and regular of the Archdiocese of Westminster Abstract: Right Reverend, Very Reverend, and Reverend Brethren.; The Address, presented to me by you this morning, calls for my warmest and most affectionate thanks. It expresses sentiments of attachment and sympathy with which, thank God, I am familiar, and the sincerity of which has been long well tested. It renews assurances of your powerful and hearty co-operation with me ; of which experience in the past is the firmest security, and an infallible guarantee.; Every repetition of such kind words is a balm that soothes, and strengthens, a Bishop's heart, never exempt from trials and discouragements; and therefore I sincerely thank you, for once more pronouncing them. But in the present moment they are a motive for a peculiar thankfulness. For they afford me an opportunity, such as never before has occurred to me, of communicating to you my recollections of great events, and of the impressions which they have made upon my mind; both of which might have passed away without any record from me, if you had not made it my duty to lay them before you...; In assisting at the magnificent function in the Vatican Basilica, on Whit-Sunday, for the canonization of the Martyrs of Japan, I felt that I was not merely occupying a place honourable beyond any personal deserts, and held only as a distinction bestowed upon the See which I occupy: but that I stood there the surety for your loyalty to the throne of Peter, and for your affection to his living successor. I felt that I was your representative in admission and acknowledgment of the supreme power, publicly claimed and exercised in that act ; -witness and attestor for you of the recognition of the infallible judgment then pronounced... [Excerpt] Description: Top of Title Page: Rome and the Catholic Episcopate.

1862-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129434 2024-11-29T10:56:54Z 1842-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Della sacra sindone di Nostro Signor Gesù Cristo ... relazione storica Abstract: Capitolo I; Notizie critico-archeologiche sopra la Sacra Sindone che si venera in Torino.; Tutti sanno l'importanza dell'argomento. Per non riuscire minore all'intendimento, non mi fo quindi che nudo e semplice espositore della credenza popolare fondata sopra valide autorità di storici e di scrittori, che ne mantennero viva di popolo in popolo, come di secolo in secolo, la tradizione maravigliosa che divenne infine pressochè universale consenso. Non è mio scopo che d'apprendere al popolo, in termini chiari e facili a ciascuno, la storia di quanto crede e venera, é maggiormente confortarlo nella sua pia credenza perchè, istruito, questa sarà più pura da superstizioni e perciò più degna di Dio. Lascio per questo a chi ne sa più di me, abbattere gli errori e rintuzzare il dente del livido scetticismo. Calvino e Basnaggio dormono colle loro memorie; e i settari che vivono forse ancora nel nostro secolo, apostoli delle loro dottrine, non saranno più ìntesi quando un popolo intiero; persuaso intimamente della sua fede, confessa e adora... [Excerpt] Description: Sacra Sindone ... Esposta alla pubblica venerazione in Torino il 4 Maggio 1842 nella fausta occorrenza del matrimonio di S.A.R. il principe ereditario Vittorio Emanuele con S.A.I.E.R. l'arciduchessa d'Austria Maria Adelaide.

1842-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129433 2024-11-29T10:51:14Z 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Discours ... dans la discussion du projet d'adresse Abstract: Discours de M. Amédée Thayer sénateur dans la discusssion du projet d'adresse; Messieurs les Sénateurs,; Membre de ce conseil général de la société de Saint-Vincent-de - Paul si violemment attaqué dans la circulaire de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur, du 16 octobre 1861, j'avais l'intention de vous entretenir pendant quelques instants de cette société. L'éloge que lè Sénat fait dans son Adresse de la bienfaisanc privée m'enhardit encore plus à vous demander de vouloir bien m'entendre. Si la société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, qui est un rouage important de la charité privée, avait réellement mérité les reproches qu'on lui adresse, cette charité privée se trouverait gravement compromise ; mais j'espère justifier complétement la société sans abuser longtemps de votre patience. Son Excellence commence par constater que la société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul se recommande au respect public par les vertus qu'elle exerce... [Excerpt]

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