Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1861

pg 433       would have neither arbitration nor reference to the Sacred 
             Congregation of the Propaganda, but who was always ready to appeal 
             to the secular arm to force them to obey.  He knew very well that 
             they would all sooner lose everything than cause scandal in a 
             diocese that has had more than enough of scandals.  But they 
             cannot understand how a Bishop, dealing with a religious 
             Congregation approved by the Holy See, refuses it the privilege of 
             carrying to Rome its difficulties, with the ecclesiastical 
             authority, but will call only on the secular arm whilst he is 
             reminded in every tone that it belongs to Rome to settle the 
             question and not to the secular tribunals.
                  Nothing would have prevailed on F. Sorin thus to drop the 
             matter before Rome had decided; but when only three days, that is 
             to say some hours were left him in which to forward his answer to 
             Chicago, otherwise the Bishop would begin a suit whose disastrous 
             consequences no one could foresee, he did not hesitate to yield 
             to the moral violence to which he was subjected, leaving it to God