Rome's Patience with the Foreign Press Nears Its End

[…] Were the thirty or forty writers engaged in circulating the most impudent falsehoods against the Pope [...] and their outrages against him [...] ought never to have been allowed to insult the Council which he has summoned to accomplish a work of peace and charity, and to scandalize the faithful by their profligate reports, libels, and blasphemies.

No other government in the world but that of the Pope would have endured such correspondents; had they been found in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, or St. Petersburg, they would long ago have been conducted to the frontier, with a stern admonition to carry on their trade elsewhere. Even in Washington or New York, public indignation would make short work of such scribblers. They are more patient in Rome; but even in Rome patience may be exhausted at last, and the hour has come when this crew of literary [...] must either learn to write with decency, or carry their pens and paper to some other market.

[...] we hope, truly, that a beginning is to be made. The correspondents of [...] in France, of [...] in Austria, of [...] in Prussia, and of [...] in England, who have surpassed all others in effrontery, are, it is said, to be expelled from Rome.