EXPULSION OF ITALIAN JESUITS FROM PERNAMBUCO.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 322, 24 June 1875, Page 3

EXPULSION OF ITALIAN JESUITS FROM PERNAMBUCO.

Brazilian newspapers contain a gazette giving a lengthy series of documents relating to the expulsion from Pernambuco of the Italian Jesuits, including letters between the fathers and their correspondents in Rome, Liverpool, and other parts of Europe. These are published by the Government, in order to show the necessity of the decree of banishment which follows, which is given in full, with the motives determining it; in other words, the charges proved against the fathers. These are : that they had systematically aimed at disturbing the peace between Church and State which existed before they came; that they had written articles for the Ultramontane journals, Espcrenza and Uhiao, attacking the established laws; that they had stirred up their friends in Rome by letter, to procure special praisefrom thenceof these very articles ; that they had openly, when warned by the police authorities of the danger of their cause, declared that they had more influence in the religious quarter than the whole power of the Imperial Government could exert; that they had sent private emissaries to Rome with a garbled version of the difference between the State and the recusant bishops, in order to obtain Papal support for the latter; and that they had proclaimed similar faliehoods from the altar, and generally made their exercise of spiritual functions the centre of the agitation now happily ended. On all these grounds the President of the province bad, under Imperial sanction, received authority for their summary banishment as foreigners who had persistently conspired against the tranquility of the State that showed them hospitality ; and. the present publication is made to demonstrate to all good Brazilian subjects how forbearing the action of the Government had been.