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;116 FOUNDATION AND EXTENT OF THE SUPREMACY.<strong>and</strong> prerogatives which it ought to enjoy, according to thelaw of God <strong>and</strong> the dispositions of the sacred canons." Art. 2 deposes that all instruction in universities, colleges,seminaries, <strong>and</strong> public or private schools, shall be conformableto Catholic doctrine ;<strong>and</strong> that no impediment shallbe put in the way of the bishops, &c. whose duty is to watchover the purity of doctrine <strong>and</strong> of manners, <strong>and</strong> over the religiouseducation of youth, even in the public schools." Art. o. <strong>The</strong> authorities to give every support to thebishops <strong>and</strong> other ministers in the exercise of their duties ;<strong>and</strong> the government to support the bishops when called on,whether ' in opposing themselves to the malignity of menwho seek to pervert the minds of the faithful <strong>and</strong> corrupttheir morals, or in impeding the publication, introduction,<strong>and</strong> circulation of bad <strong>and</strong> dangerous books.'"<strong>The</strong> 29th article provides for the establishment by thegovernment of certain religious houses <strong>and</strong> congregations,specifying those of San Vicente Paul, San Felipe Neri, <strong>and</strong>" some other one of those approved by the Holy See ;" theobject being stated to be, that there may be always a sufficientnumber of ministers <strong>and</strong> evangelical labourers for home<strong>and</strong> foreign missions, &c., <strong>and</strong> also that they may serve asplaces of retirement for ecclesiastics, in order to performspiritual exercises <strong>and</strong> other pious works.Art. 80 refers to religious houses for women, in whichthose who are called to a contemplative life may follow theirvocation, <strong>and</strong> others may follow that of assistance to thesick, education, <strong>and</strong> other pious <strong>and</strong> useful works ;<strong>and</strong> directsthe preservation of the institution of Daughters ofCharity, under the direction of the clergy of San VicentePaul, the government to endeavour to promote the samereliarious houses in which education of children <strong>and</strong> otherworks of charity are added to a contemplative life also to bemaintained ; <strong>and</strong>, with respect to other orders, the bishopsof the respective dioceses to propose the cases in which theadmission <strong>and</strong> profession of noviciates should take place, <strong>and</strong>

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