Storia do Mogor 358.5.4

358.5.4

Gentlemen, although I have set before you much more than was necessary, I have done it to show you that it is nothing but simple passion, and not the Holy Spirit, which drives his Lordship to such acts against the Capuchin fathers. Yet I cannot refrain from calling your attention to the manner in which a bishop ought to bear himself in committing a priest or friar to the secular arm, to be degraded and receive chastisement according to his offences. Those provisions are to be found in the Roman Pontificals of Clement VIII. and Urban VIII.: 'Tum Pontifex degradator efficaciter, et ex corde, et omni instantia, pro misérrimo illo derelicto intercedit apud judicem Saecularem, ut citra mortis periculum, vel mutilationis, contra degradatum sententiam moderetur, dicens: Domine Iudex, rogamus vos cum omni affectu quo possumus, ut amore Dei, pietatis et misericórdiae intuitu, et nostrorum