CHAPTER XVII.
FOREIGN OCCUPATION.
The Pope is loved and revered in all Catholic countries--except his own.
It is, therefore, perfectly just and natural that one hundred and thirty-nine millions of devoted and respectful men should render him assistance against three millions of discontented ones.

It is not enough to have given him a temporal kingdom, or to have restored that kingdom to him when he had the misfortune to lose it; one must lend him a permanent support, unless the expense of a fresh restoration is to be incurred every year.
This is the principle of the foreign occupation.

We are one hundred and thirty-nine millions of Catholics, who have violently delegated to three millions of Italians the honour of boarding and lodging our spiritual chief.

If we were not to leave a respectable army in Italy to watch over the execution of our commands, we should be doing our work by halves.
In strict logic, the security of the Pope should be guaranteed at the common expense of the Catholic Powers.

It seems quite natural that each nation interested in the oppression of the Romans should furnish its contingent of soldiers.