The reader will find in these two works an exposition of the diverse statutes of the Catholic Church in other countries.

Each of these statutes differs from ours in one or several important articles; the fixed, or even territorial, endowment of the clergy, the nomination to the episcopate by the chapter, or by the clergy of the diocese, or by the bishops of the province, public competition for curacies, irremovability, participation of the chapter in the government of the diocese, restoration of the officialite; return to the prescriptions of the Council of Trent (Cf.

especially the Concordats between the Holy See and Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, the two Hesses, Belgium, Austria, Spain, and the statutes accepted or established by the Holy See in Ireland and the United States.)] [Footnote 5345: The brothers Allignol, "De l'Etat actuel du clerge en France," p.248.

"The mind of the desservant is no longer his own.

Let him beware of any personal sentiment or opinion!...