The Daughters of the King and Other Poems

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Longmans, Green, 1871 - 331 pages
 

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Page x - We teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed : that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex .cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the Universal Church...
Page vii - For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles.
Page x - Cathedrd, that is, when in discharge of his office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians, he defines, in virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the Universal Church, is endowed by the divine assistance promised to him in Blessed Peter, with that infallibility with which our divine Redeemer willed that the Church should be furnished in defining doctrine of faith or morals ; and, therefore, that such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable...
Page xi - that when the Roman Pontiff speaks ex cathedra — -that is, when he, using his office as pastor and doctor of all Christians, in virtue of his apostolic office defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the whole church...
Page 322 - ... which the world has seen. In 1832, as in 1864, the reigning Pontiff did not content himself with condemning this monstrous exaggeration ; but authoritatively decreed, that the speculative basis, on which those liberties are more commonly defended, is directly contrary to Catholic truth. If Gregory XVI. denounced as an " insanity " the tenet " that liberty of conscience is to be vindicated for each man,
Page 322 - If Gregory XVI. denounced as an " insanity " the tenet " that liberty of conscience is to be vindicated for each man," Pius IX. no less emphatically declares (prop. Ixxix.) that the liberty of worships and of the press conduces to the corruption of morals and the propagation of a pestilential indifferentism. At the same time there is this very important difference between the two. Gregory XVI. put forth his Encyclical at the beginning of his reign ; and its doctrinal decisions refer only to that...
Page 321 - Sceptical, heretical, and infidel writers, have made the so-called fanaticism of Philip II., in maintaining catholicity as the exclusive religion of Spain, a favourite theme of obloquy ; but his piety and...
Page 320 - It has never said that Catholics are obliged to obey, under pain of mortal sin, a variety of...
Page 321 - At a time, therefore, that the ordinary condition of humanity was that of severe and continuous suffering, it was an absolute necessity that punishment for every kind of offence should wear an aspect of pitilessness and sternness which very naturally appals the modern
Page 321 - Inquisition to save his country from the bloody horde of sectaries who were desolating the rest of Europe merit for him the name of a wise, -well-intentioned, and good Christian prince.

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