Coskery, Father H.B., Baltimore, Maryland, to Father Etienne Rousselon, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1854 December 27

Coskery has just received from Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick a letter dated Rome, November 21. Kenrick says he is at length enabled to inform Coskery that the Pope has continued their faculties for the present, until further determination in the terms in which they were granted for two years. They are also authorized to communicate to their Vicar General all faculties save those which require episcopal character when absent for more than one day. The ordinary faculties are communicated to the Vicars General at all times. The Holy See desires great care and reserve in the exercise of these powers, meaning the powers which expire on next January 1, but the news of the renewal of which the Archbishop communicates. :: VI-1-h A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.