Storia do Mogor 360.8

360.8

This petition placed his Lordship in a position of great embarrassment, owing to certain expressions which you will have observed in it, which are, however, the very ones used by his Lordship himself. He therefore replied that he could not pass an order on the above petition without being attacked by either the court of Portugal or the court of Rome; but we might publish the decrees in our church at Pondicherry. Father Michel Ange then retorted: 'Can we, then, publish the decrees in our church?' And his Lordship answered: 'Yes, you can; who can hinder?' If after such a permission his Lordship writes that the decrees were published without his leave and authority, finally inserting this statement in his Pastoral and Declaration, what do you think we can do when a bishop denies what he has said? Meanwhile, Father Michel Ange, reading in the pastoral of Monsignor what he could not believe when first told, wrote to his Lordship the following letter: Letter of the Reverend Father Michel Ange. 'Most Illustrious and Most Reverend Lord Bishop,