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  1 1 |       were, the lineaments of the Church. Amongst these the most
  2 1 |      beauty and comeliness of the Church ought greatly to influence
  3 1 |          that even a love for the Church may be stirred up in the
  4 1 |          blood. "Christ loved the Church, and delivered Himself up
  5 1 |      which price nevertheless the Church was bought by Jesus Christ),
  6 3 |                               The Church Always Visible~3. And, since
  7 3 |        and on this principle, the Church was begotten. If we consider
  8 3 |     consider the chief end of His Church and the proximate efficient
  9 3 | interpreters. For this reason the Church is so often called in Holy
 10 3 |       because it is a body is the Church visible: and because it
 11 3 |          supernatural life in the Church is clearly shown in that
 12 3 | themselves a hidden and invisible Church are in grievous and pernicious
 13 3 |          are those who regard the Church as a human institution which
 14 3 |  assuredly as impossible that the Church of Jesus Christ can be the
 15 3 |  absolutely necessary to the true Church as the intimate union of
 16 3 |           is to human nature. The Church is not something dead: it
 17 3 |        body of Christ is the true Church, only because its visible
 18 3 |        and essence. But since the Church is such by divine will and
 19 3 |           the very essence of the Church, must necessarily remain
 20 3 | necessarily remain so long as the Church itself shall endure. Wherefore
 21 3 |      writes: "Secede not from the Church: for nothing is stronger
 22 3 |      nothing is stronger than the Church. Thy hope is the Church;
 23 3 |           Church. Thy hope is the Church; thy salvation is the Church;
 24 3 |      Church; thy salvation is the Church; thy refuge is the Church.
 25 3 |         Church; thy refuge is the Church. It is higher than the heavens
 26 3 |           of time shall roll, the Church of God-the true body of
 27 3 |        And in another place: "The Church will totter if its foundation
 28 3 |      remaining immovable, it (the Church), shall never be shaken.
 29 3 |        are they that say that the Church has disappeared from the
 30 3 |         instituted and formed the Church: wherefore when we are asked
 31 3 |  criterion it is the unity of the Church which must be principally
 32 4 |               How Christ Made His Church~4. It is so evident from
 33 4 |           Holy Writ that the true Church of Jesus Christ is one,
 34 4 |         Not the foundation of the Church alone, but its whole constitution,
 35 4 |           investigate not how the Church may possibly be one, but
 36 4 |        point of fact, institute a Church to embrace several communities
 37 4 |      those bonds which render the Church unique and indivisible after
 38 4 |        profess: "I believe in one Church." "The Church in respect
 39 4 |      believe in one Church." "The Church in respect of its unity
 40 4 |      therefore, that the Catholic Church is unique in its essence,
 41 4 |  Furthermore, the eminence of the Church arises from its unity, as
 42 4 |        edifice, mentions only one Church, which he calls His own-"
 43 4 |          His own-"I will build my church;" any other Church except
 44 4 |       build my church;" any other Church except this one, since it
 45 4 |        Christ, cannot be the true Church. This becomes even more
 46 4 |          He wish in regard to the Church founded, or about to be
 47 4 |        saved" (Acts iv., 12). The Church, therefore, is bound to
 48 4 |         it is necessary that this Church should be one in all lands
 49 4 |        existence of more than one Church it would be necessary to
 50 4 |         race of men. That the one Church should embrace all men everywhere
 51 4 |         the Lord"-that is, of the Church, "And in the last days the
 52 4 |       holy mountain, that is, the Church, which has raised itself
 53 4 |          the whole heavens....The Church is, therefore, the spiritual
 54 4 |         there is but one Catholic Church" (De Schism. Donatist.,
 55 5 |            Christ the Head of the Church~5. Furthermore, the Son
 56 5 |           of God decreed that the Church should be His mystical body,
 57 5 |         Christ) head over all the Church, which is His body" (Eph.
 58 5 |           and one Christ; and His Church is one and the faith is
 59 5 |          clearly the unity of the Church, he makes use of the illustration
 60 5 |       must of necessity die. "The Church," he says, "cannot be divided
 61 5 |           as also Christ doth the Church: because we are members
 62 5 |         Christ-if besides the one Church, which is His body, men
 63 5 |        Sermo cclxvii., n. 4). The Church of Christ, therefore, is
 64 5 |   Whosoever is separated from the Church is united to an adulteress.
 65 5 |          from the promises of the Church, and he who leaves the Church
 66 5 |     Church, and he who leaves the Church of Christ cannot arrive
 67 6 |         indeed, Who made this one Church, also gave it unity, that
 68 6 |        wisdom, He ordained in His Church Unity of Faith; a virtue
 69 7 |          in the first ages of the Church. Irenaeus writes of heretics
 70 8 |        Teaching Authority) of the Church to be Perpetual~8. We are
 71 9 |           Must be Accepted~9. The Church, founded on these principles
 72 9 |    banished from the bosom of the Church? In like manner were condemned
 73 9 |     Arianos). The practice of the Church has always been the same,
 74 9 |       communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in
 75 9 |        fathers and doctors of the Church have been accustomed to
 76 9 |           by the tradition of the Church of God" (Vetus Interpretatio
 77 9 |       without hesitation that the Church received it from the Apostles,
 78 9 |         those who are outside the Church can never grasp the divine
 79 9 |         for the ship typifies the Church where the word of life is
 80 9 |          Christ instituted in the Church a Living, authoritative
 81 9 |       separating himself from the Church?-without repudiating in
 82 9 |      reject others. Faith, as the Church teaches, is "that supernatural
 83 9 |        invariable teaching of the Church as to the very nature of
 84 9 |         which are proposed by the Church as divinely revealed, either
 85 9 |      there should be unity in His Church, and as it is evident what
 86 9 |       refuge in the bosom of that Church, which, as is evident to
 87 9 |        miracles. To refuse to the Church the primacy is most impious
 88 9 |     undoubtedly the office of the church to guard Christian doctrine
 89 9 |          the object for which the Church has been instituted is not
 90 9 |       commands, so He ordered the Church to strive, by the truth
 91 9 |        these must be found in the Church, since it continues the
 92 9 |         the Saviour for ever. The Church alone offers to the human
 93 10|                               The Church a Divine Society~10. But
 94 10|         end He established in the Church all principles which necessarily
 95 10|         each. That is, in it (the Church), all who wished to be the
 96 10|       might obtain salvation. The Church, therefore, as we have said,
 97 10|         they who pretend that the Church has any wish to interfere
 98 10|          God indeed even made the Church a society far more perfect
 99 10|         For the end for which the Church exists is as much higher
100 10|          the earth. Therefore the Church is a society divine in its
101 10|  therefore must have given to His Church a supreme authority to which
102 10|     required for the unity of the church, inasmuch as it is the body
103 10|       same unity, inasmuch as the Church is a divinely constituted
104 10|         divino. "The unity of the Church is manifested in the mutual
105 10|         of all the members of the Church to one head" (St. Thomas,
106 10|        away from the unity of the Church by schism, as well as by
107 10|           also separates from the Church" (S. Hieronymus, Comment.
108 10|         is as wrong to divide the Church as to fall into heresy" (
109 10|       destroying the unity of the Church" (S. Augustinus, Contra
110 11|           to govern and guard His church from Heaven. But since He
111 11|         the one spouse of the one Church, he does not give an adequate
112 11|          in the Sacraments of the Church; it is Christ Himself who
113 11|         visible presence from the Church, it was necessary that He
114 11|           charge of the Universal Church. Hence before His Ascension
115 11|      Peter to be that head of the Church; and He also determined
116 11|         this rock I will build my church" (Matt. xvi., 18). "To Peter
117 11|         He was about to found His Church" (S. Cyrillus Alexandrinus,
118 12|       will and command of God the Church rests upon St. Peter, just
119 12|          St. Peter to support the Church, and to guard it in all
120 12|           which Christ builds the Church or the Church? The expression
121 12|          builds the Church or the Church? The expression indeed is
122 12|            as if the rock and the Church were one and the same. I
123 12|           which Christ builds His Church nor against the Church shall
124 12|        His Church nor against the Church shall the gates of Hell
125 12|         bring to bear against the Church, it can never be that the
126 12|          it can never be that the church committed to the care of
127 12|           any wise fail. "For the Church, as the edifice of Christ
128 12|          the rock and outside the Church, but shall be powerless
129 12|        Therefore God confided His Church to Peter so that he might
130 12|     clearly still speaking of the Church, which a short time before
131 12|        Peter as a foundation. The Church is typified not only as
132 12|      power and authority over the Church. "The Son committed to Peter
133 12|       world. He who increased the Church in all the earth, and proclaimed
134 12|   superior, it embraces the whole Church and all things committed
135 12|           things committed to the Church. The promise is carried
136 12|          as the foundation of the Church should be the defence of
137 12|        show the foundation of the Church?" (S. Ambrosius, De Fide,
138 12|       were a stone to support the Church. "When he heard «thou art
139 12|         He who is the King of His Church, "Who bath the key of David,
140 12|         of all the Fathers of the Church. So that, although in the
141 12|           the charge of the whole Church was committed to St. Peter,
142 12|           whole government of the Church is confided to him" (Epist.
143 13|      Possess Supreme Power in the Church Jure Divino~13. It was necessary
144 13| constitution and formation of the Church, as its principal element-that
145 13|   abandoned the government of the Church which had been confided
146 13|          the supreme power in the church, jure divino. "We define" (
147 13|           hold the primacy of the Church throughout the whole world:
148 13|     Christ, the head of the whole Church, and the father and teacher
149 13|           to govern the universal Church, as is also contained in
150 13|      Lateran declares: "The Roman Church, as the mother and mistress
151 13|            referring to the Roman Church, says: "With this Church,
152 13|          Church, says: "With this Church, on account of its preeminent
153 13|           is necessary that every Church should be in concord" (Contra
154 13|    Cyprian also says of the Roman Church, that "it is the root and
155 13|        and mother of the Catholic Church, the chair of Peter, and
156 13|          Peter, and the principal Church whence sacerdotal unity
157 13|         he calls it the principal Church, on account of the primacy
158 13|          unity, because the Roman Church is the efficient cause of
159 13|          is the rock on which the Church is built" (Ep. xv., ad Damasum,
160 13|       always existed in the Roman Church" (Ep. xliii., n. 7); and
161 13|       communion with the Catholic Church" (Ep. lv., n. 1). In the
162 13|         the Pope of the most holy Church of Rome: that is to the
163 13|        the ground of the Catholic Church, received the keys of the
164 13|         this rock I will build my Church,» &c., cannot be passed
165 13|       Lyons: "The same holy Roman Church possesses the sovereign
166 13|           over the whole Catholic Church, which, truly and humbly,
167 14|     Essential Constitution of the Church~14. But if the authority
168 14|       Peter the foundation of the Church also "chose, twelve, whom
169 14|     essential constitution of the Church. Although they do not receive
170 14|        divine constitution of the Church. Above all things the need
171 14|         flock. "The safety of the Church depends on the dignity of
172 14|     schisms to be expected in the Church as there are priests" (S.
173 14|          as the foundation of the Church. To him He gave the power
174 15|          founder decreed that the Church should be one in faith,
175 15|         him alone He buildeth His Church; and although after His
176 15|        outside can command in the Church. Wherefore Optatus of Milevis
177 15|       sheep form the whole of the Church" (S. Brunonis Episcopi Signiensis
178 15|    Apostles; the safeguard of the Church." In this sense St. Bernard
179 15|        divine constitution of the Church, to hold that while each
180 15|       from prevailing against the Church. All are agreed that the
181 15|         must be understood of the Church as a whole, and not of any
182 15|          dispersed throughout the Church, but also when they are
183 15|          exercise for ever in the Church the power which He exercised
184 15|  acknowledged and attested by the Church, as is clear from the teaching
185 15|        been received by the whole Church" (Epist. xxvi., ad Episcopos
186 15|        divine constitution of the Church should be preserved. Therefore,
187 15|           honour of the Universal Church. My honour is the strength
188 16|          exemplar and form of the Church as divinely constituted.
189 16|         the Divine Founder of the Church willed that it should be
190 16|         the bosom of the Catholic Church, and to have lived in it,
191 16|           of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the
192 16|           all places in which the Church is found, are not in the
193 16|          is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who
194 16|   communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church" (
195 16|        the Church, are not in the Church" (S. Augustinus, Contra
196 16|          and at the same time the Church as their mother. We lovingly
197 16|          our God; let us love His Church; the Lord as our Father,
198 16|           Lord as our Father, the Church as our Mother. Let no one
199 16|  soothsayers; but I leave not the Church of God: I am a Catholic.
200 16|      Father, if you blaspheme His Church? . . . If you had a beneficent
201 16|           as your Father, and the Church as your Mother" (Enarratio