Nobody need wonder at such a distribution of places.

In the government of Rome, the Pope is everything, the Secretary of State is almost everything, the Cardinals are something, and the priests on the road to become something.

The _lay nation_, which marries and gives in marriage, and peoples the State, is nothing--never will be anything.
The word _prelate_ has fallen from my pen; I will pause a moment to explain its precise meaning.

Among us it is a title sufficiently respected: at Rome it is far less so.

We have no prelates but our Archbishops and Bishops.