Editorial note — The Second Plenary Council Of Baltimore, And Ecclesiastical Discipline In The United States.

[Footnote 129: Concilii Plenarii Baltimorensis II. Acta et Decreta. Baltimorae, 1868.]

[Introductory Note—The periodical from which the following article has been translated is one of the highest character, published at Paris under the editorial supervision of the Jesuit fathers. The account which it renders of the late Council of Baltimore is made doubly valuable from the fact that it is the work of a foreign, and therefore an impartial, judge. We have been obliged to make a few corrections in the article. Several of these were suggested by the Most Rev. President of the Council, and the rest were required by obvious and quite natural inaccuracies of a writer living in a foreign country.]