...devoted in a peculiar manner to the most awful institutions of religion, seems to pass beyond disrespert, and almost to border on profanation. The next ceremony...altar be converted into the footstool of a mortal ? * Hie sua pascit populos fideles Carne, qui muiuli scelus omne tollit Agnus, et fnsi pretium cruoris...

...the altar be made his footstool ? the altar, the beauty of holiness, the throne of the victim * Jamb, the mercy seat of the temple of Christianity ; why...altar be converted into the footstool of a mortal ? * Hie su4 pascit populos fidelcs Carne, qui mundi scelus omne tollit Agnus, et fusi pretium cruoris...

...throne of the victim* lamb, the mercy scat of the temple of Christianity ; why should the altar he converted into the footstool of a mortal ? I mean...altering an ancient rite (if this piece of pageantry deserve that epithet) the world is too well acquainted with the virtues of the late Pontiffs to suspect...

...into the chalice: now, however important these votes may be , and however intimate their connexion with the welfare of the Church, yet to apply to them...censure to those who practise or who tolerate it. Be* Hie sua pascit populos fideles Came, qui mundi scelus omae tollit Agnus, et fusi pretium cruoris...

...Sixtine chapel , and there receives the homage of the cardinals: this ceremony is again repeated oil the high altar of St. Peter's. Now in this piece of...censure to those who practise or who tolerate it. Be* Hie su?i piscit populos fidrles Came, qui miindi scelus omne tollit Agnus, et fusi pretium cruoris...

...have alluded, is that called the adoration of the Pope ; it takes place almost immediately after bis election, when he is placed in a chair on the altar...altering an ancient rite (if this piece of pageantry deserve that epithet) the world is too well acquained with the virtues of the late Pontiffs to suspect...

...a distinction. But why should the altar be made his footstool ? the altar, the beauty of holitiess, the throne of the victim* lamb, the mercy seat of...altering an ancient rite (if this piece of pageantry deserve that epithet) the world is too well acquained with the virtues of the late Pontiffs to suspect...

...made his footstool 1 the altar, the beauty of holiness, the throne of the victim lamb, the mercy-seat of the temple of Christianity : why should the altar be converted into the footstool of a mortal V The income of the Roman court is not only reduced in its amount, but is very irregular and uncertain....

...his footstool ? — the altar, the beauty of holiness, the throne of the victim-lamb, the mercy-seat of the temple of Christianity : why should the altar be converted into the footstool of a mortal?" The last ceremony which we shall notice is the following: — As the new Pontiff advances towards the...

...made his footstool! The altar, the beauty of holiness, the throne of the victim-lamb, the mercy-seat of the temple of Christianity; why should the altar be converted into the footstool of a mortal?"59 Why, indeed, but as a fulfilment of the apostolic prediction — " He as God, sitteth in...