The Spanish Bishops who recently laid down the seventeen "
Principles " which must be accepted before a union of all Catholics could be hoped for, have forwarded an address to the Queen of Spain in which they further explain their views. They complain of the "impudence and audacity" of Protestantism, which actually builds churches and schools in Madrid, and of "the unbridled license of the impious Press "; and declare that all University professors and tsschers in Colleges ought to subject themselves to the Catholic religion. They point to many social scandals, includ- ing the horrible blasphemies heard in the streets, and finally demand from the Government a. remedy. The Queen, of course, in reply only promised to consult her advisers. Obviously the Bishops of Spain agree with the present Pope, who, as a correspondent of the Tines points out, in an Encyclical issued on Jana 20th, 18St, declared that "one thing remains perpetually true, that liberty accorded to all and for all is not desirable for its own sake, since it is repugnant to reason that what is false should enjoy the same rights as what is true. It is strange to see in regard to toleration the extent to which the disciples of Liberalism depart from the Equity and prudence of the Church." Yet Rome insists that where Protestantism reigns it must fully tolerate Roman Catholicism.
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