"On the 30th of January of last year, the sentence of the Canonical Council was forwarded to you, whereby, in consequence of your failing satisfactorily to disprove the authorship of the Article 'Rome and the Chapter of Breslau,' and conducting yourself otherwise in a manner unbecoming a Catholic clergyman, you were deposed from the Curacy of Grottkau, and, having been interdicted from the performance of spiritual functions, were charged to submit yourself _ad exercitia spiritualia_ in the Seminary here, under the orders of the Superior, and await the farther pleasure of the Council. You have hitherto paid no attention to this judgment, especially in regard to its later requirements, but have obstinately persisted in disobedience to your superiors. "There has lately appeared in No. 164 of the Vaterlands- blatter, another Article, dated Laurahütte, Oct. 1st, and bearing your signature, in regard to the exhibition of the Holy Tunic of Jesus Christ at Treves--an Article most offensive to all orthodox Catholics, and calculated seriously to injure the character of one of the most worthy bishops of the Catholic Church, and which, besides, contains an invitation to rebellion against all existing and universally recognized principles in the government of the said Church. "This calls for the strictest investigation, and excites well-deserved suspicion,--I therefore require of you, seeing that you subscribe yourself 'A Catholic Priest,' and call yourself a member of the Catholic Church in this diocese, to declare _within fourteen days_, "1st, Whether you acknowledge yourself the author of the above named Article; "2d, Whether, in case you do, you are inclined to atone for your offence, and the grief occasioned to the most reverend Bishop Arnoldi of Treves, by a solemn retractation in the same paper, and in other much-read Journals, to be named by me; "3d, Should you have had no part in the drawing out or despatching of said Article, and should your signature and address have been used without authority,--are you willing and able to prove it, and to free yourself from the suspicion which rests upon you, and in consequence of which you are hereby enjoined to present yourself without delay! "If the required explanation be not furnished within the time specified, and should you not show yourself ready to satisfy the questions put, I am reluctantly compelled, in addition to the Decree of Suspension, which has already been put in force, hereby to suspend over you the ecclesiastical punishment of degradation and excommunication." "--Latussrk, Suffragan Bishop and Vicar-General of the Diocese." "To the late Curate Ronge, at Laurahütte."