1 [It may be well to add, to preclude misconceptions, that both
Letters and Articles are exclusively the work of Catholics.—TR.]
2 The weight to be attached to the _Civiltà_ on all questions
connected with the Council may be gathered from the Brief of Pius
IX. of Feb. 12, 1866, printed in the _Civiltà_, Serie vi. vol. vi.
pp. 7-15. The Pope declares that this journal, expressly intrusted
with the defence of religion and with teaching and disseminating the
authority and claims of the Roman See, is to be written and edited
by a special staff to be named by the General of the Jesuits, who
are to have a special house and revenues of their own. The previous
censorship, as is known in Rome, is exercised with particular care,
so that nothing appears without the approbation of the _Curia_.
3 [Cardinal Reisach was absent at the opening of the Council, and died
soon afterwards, Dec. 26, 1869, in Savoy.—TR.]