It is just so much knocked off the salaries.
The Government even overlooks embezzlement of public money, provided the guilty party be an ecclesiastic, or well affected to the present order of things.

The errors of friends are judged _en famille_.

If a Prelate make a mistake, he is reprimanded, and dismissed, which means that his situation is changed for a better one.
Monsignor N---- gets the holy house of Loretto into financial trouble.
The consequence is that Monsignor N---- is removed to Rome, and placed at the head of the hospital of the Santo Spirito.

Probably this is done because the latter establishment is richer and more difficult to get into financial trouble than the holy house of Loretto.
Monsignor A---- was an Auditor of the Rota, and made a bad judge.

He was made a Prefect of Bologna.