The three millions of men who dwell in his States are appointed by Europe to defray the expenses of his court.

In point of fact, we have given them to the Pope, not the Pope to them.
On this understanding, the Pope's first duty is to say Mass at St.
Peter's for 139,000,000 of Roman Catholics; his second is to make a dignified appearance, to receive company, to wear a crown, and to take care it does not fall off his head.

But it is a matter of perfect indifference to him that his subjects brawl, rob, or murder one another, so long as they don't attack either his Church or his government.
If we examine the question of the distribution of punishments in the Papal States from this point of view, we shall see that papal justice never strikes at random.
The most unpardonable crimes in the eyes of the clergy are those which are offensive to Heaven.

Rome punishes sins.

The tribunal of the Vicariate sends a blasphemer to the galleys, and claps into goal the silly fellow who refuses to take the Communion at Easter.