this side of the Vatican at Rome, gives
entire the Bull of Pope Sixtus V. against the King of Navarre and the
Prince of Conde, whom he styles the _sons of wrath_. In this Bull,
issued in the year 1585, he says:

"The authority given to Saint Peter and his successors, by the
immense power of the eternal King, _excels all the power of
earthly kings and princes_. It passeth uncontrollable sentence
upon them all. And if it find any of them resisting God's
obedience, it takes more severe vengeance on them, casting them
down from their thrones, however powerful they may be, and
tumbling them down to the lowest parts of the earth, as the
ministers of aspiring Lucifer."

Here is what _Daniel O'Connell_ said so late as 1843, and he was a true
Catholic and a true exponent of this faith:

"You should do all in your power to carry out the intentions of
His Holiness the Pope. Where you have the electoral franchise,
give your votes to none but those who will assist you in so
holy a struggle.

"I declare my most unequivocal submission to the Head of the
Church, and to the hierarchy in its different orders. If the
Bishop makes a declaration on this bill, I never would be heard
speaking against it, but would submit at once unequivocally to
that decision. They have only to decide, and I close my mouth:
they have only to determine, and I obey. I wish it to be
understood that _such is the duty of all Catholics_."--_Daniel
O'Connell_, 1843.

Here comes one of the Pope's organs in France:

"A heretic, examined and convicted by the Church, used to be
delivered over to the secular power and punished with death.
Nothing has ever appeared to us more necessary. More than one
hundred thousand persons perished in consequence of the heresy
of Wickliffe; a still greater number for that of John Huss; and
it would not be possible to calculate the bloodshed caused by
Luther; and it is not yet over."--_Paris Univers._

"As for myself, what I regret, I frankly own, is that they did
not burn John Huss sooner, and that they did not likewise burn
Luther; this happened because there was not found some prince
sufficiently politic to stir up a crusade against
Protestants."--_Paris Univers._

But here is the Pope himself arguing with the authorities already
quoted:

"The absurd or erron