Quoting the Bull of Pope Leo XII on Secret Societies Kenrick thinks that the society in question does not have deliberate designs against State or Church but he regards it as a society tending to strife and bloodshed from the pledge given to espouse the cause of an injured brother. The promise to abstain from violence or injustice against a brother implies a disposition to commit such acts against others, which is injurious to religion. He thinks these secret societies should be discountenanced altogether on account of their evil tendencies. He desires uniformity of action on the part of all the bishops. Their being a secret society is not the only objection. Dr. Bernard Smith writes from Rome that they are waiting for heaps of American gold to fit up the college. He says that the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars has decreed that the ex-Redemptorists Paulists are subject to their respective bishops and they have been notified that they must obey their prelates. Bishop Thaddeus Amat is on his way to Rome, He meets difficulties with the Mexican Franciscans who tolerate the abuses of old Californians. He does not know what Dr. Michael O'Connor means to do since Father Edward Purcell refuses absolutely. :: I-1-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.