Storia do Mogor 361.4.4

361.4.4

he must promise to cease further turbulence until some new [270] decision comes from Rome.' 'Let Monsignor permit the Reverend Father Esprit to appear before him,' replied the Reverend Father Guardian, 'and after you have heard his reasons, if you are not satisfied, you may do whatever you judge most appropriate.' We noticed then that his Lordship, instead of answering, turned his head in another direction. The more urgent we were with him the more obdurate he became. The Guardian continued and said: 'Monsignor, if the Reverend Father Esprit were at Rome, instead of being at San Thomé, and he were to present himself to his Holiness to report to him on imputations made against him, and were to submit himself to punishment in case he had merited it, would his Holiness order him to go away without having granted him an audience?' 'The cases are not parallel,' said a Jesuit who was present. This having afforded me an opening, I said: 'A pope would not refuse an audience to the Reverend Father Esprit if he were at Rome; and my Lord Bishop, upon the depositions of the reverend Jesuit fathers, whose most iniquitous calumny, worse than any ever yet heard, has been unmasked, excommunicates the Reverend Father Esprit without any regular form of process;