Excerpt from The Ecclesiastical Review, 1909, Vol. 41: A Monthly Publication for the Clergy In accordance with the recent regulations of Pius X, the Secretariate Of State is now divided into three departments. The first is concerned with business of an extraordinary, or unusually important, character, which is to be submitted for consideration to the Congregation for Extraordinary Eccle siastical Affairs, or to one of the other Congregations. The second section has charge of all ordinary or routine matters. With some few exceptions, it has the right of granting all marks Of honor, both ecclesiastical and civil, to those who have given some notable and valuable service to the Church and Religion. The last section arranges for the sending of the Apostolic Briefs committed to it by the various Congre gations. Each Of these sections has a president, who is sub ject directly to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of the Congregation for' Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs pre sides over the first section; the substitute Secretary of State, who has charge of the cipher code used in sending important despatches to and from the nunciatures, directs the second section; the Chancellor of Apostolic Briefs is the superior of the third section. A number of minor Officials, e. G., clerks, writers, archivists, accountants, are attached to each depart ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.