A new and remarkable proof of the power of the
Rotnish Church over her servants has just been given at Rome. Cardinal Andrea, it is well known, has for some time past been afflicted with Italian and Liberal opinions, has started a journal to uphold them, has doubted whether temporal power can be necessary to a divine institution, and has altogether shown a disposition to believe that Christianity is as true in the nineteenth century as in the first. Consequently he has been threatened with the loss of his hat and deprivation from all ecclesiastical dignities. These arguments have completely convinced his mind, he has published a full retrac- tation, deplores the heresies of his paper, withdraws his protest against the Pope's brief, asks pardon, and subsides humbly into a mere Cardinal who believes Christianity and the nineteenth century incompatible.
