A French Catholic journal gives the text of a singular reply recently made by the Pope to an address presented to him in the name of a vast number of strangers sojourning in Rome. What above all struck his hearers, it is reported, on this occasion, was the "majestic rebuke" delivered by the Pope to those "Catholics, whether lay or ecclesiastic," who have the pretension to offer him advice, or show him the path he ought to pursue. "I alone," he said, "despite my unworthiness, am the successor of the apostles, the vicar of Jesus Christ; I alone have the mission to guide and direct the bark of Peter: I am the way, the truth, and the life. They who are with me are with the Church: they who are not with me, are out of the Church—they are out of the way, the truth, and the life. Let men well understand this, that they be not deceived or led astray by soidistant Catholics, who desire and teach something quite different from what the head of the Church desires and teaches."