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501 1 | that He will graciously grant Us the power of bringing 502 15| binding and loosening was granted to the Apostles and to Peter; 503 9 | outside the Church can never grasp the divine teaching; for 504 9 | willed and ordered, under the gravest penalties, that its teachings 505 6 | one faith. It is of the greatest importance and indeed of 506 1 | comeliness of the Church ought greatly to influence the minds of 507 15| is given to everyone" (S. Gregorius M. Epistolarum, lib viii., 508 13| pillar of the faith and the ground of the Catholic Church, 509 12| building being framed together, groweth up in a holy temple in the 510 3 | than the earth. It never grows old, but is ever full of 511 9 | Scriptures have been zealously guarded and fully interpreted" ( 512 1 | the fold, placed under the guardianship of Jesus Christ, the Chief 513 9 | than she has displayed in guarding the integrity of the faith. 514 3 | infusion of His power Christ guards and sustains it, just as 515 10| kept bound together by the guidance and authority of the head. 516 3 | seeks the truth must be guided by these fundamental principles. 517 9 | in one point, is become guilty of all" (Ep. James ii., 518 15| rejected those of Rimini, and Hadrian I. those of Constantinople. 519 15| pronounced sentence on him" (Hadrianus ii., in Allocutione iii., 520 9 | Catholic" (S. Augustinus, De Haeresibus, n. 88). The need of this 521 5 | what you must dread. It happens that, as in the human body, 522 3 | invisible elements because it harmonizes with the natural order and 523 8 | it is obviously most in harmony with God's providence that 524 13| or that man...but let him hasten before all things to be 525 5 | living body? "For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth 526 1 | See. ~Venerable Brethren, Health, and Benediction.~It is 527 16| who is able to move the hearts of men and to incline them 528 15| the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven-you who fight against the chair 529 16| finisher of our faith" (Heb. xii., 2) feel Our heart 530 15| Prince of Bishops and the heir of the Apostles. . . . Thou 531 13| to be, or to be called, a heretic, let him not strive to please 532 5 | off from it he becomes a heretic-the life of the spirit follows 533 9 | condemned all authors of heretical tenets who followed them 534 3 | picture to themselves a hidden and invisible Church are 535 15| that he was placed in the highest degree of dignity and authority. 536 9 | Praescrip., cap. xxxi). And so Hilary: "Christ teaching from the 537 10| and may, without let or hindrance, exercise, according to 538 13| xxvi., ad omnes Episc. Hispan., n. 4). We have no wish 539 9 | the Apostolic succession" (Hist. Eccl., lib. ii., cap. 9). 540 1 | power of bringing conviction home to the minds of men.~ 541 13| drawn up and proposed by Hormisdas, which was subscribed at 542 9 | word of truth is in the houses.” But we should believe 543 13| Church, which, truly and humbly, it acknowledges to have 544 8 | others also" (2 Tim. ii., I-2). Wherefore, as Christ was 545 15| enable us to see the heavenly ideal, and the divine exemplar, 546 1 | consideration; that false ideas and prejudices may be dissipated 547 7 | effect and preserve unity of ideas-that there should be another 548 16| one say, I go indeed to idols, I consult fortune-tellers 549 1 | Nor is it improbable that ignorance may be dispelled by the 550 5 | Church, he makes use of the illustration of a living body, the members 551 13| Defloratio ex Epistola ad Petrum illustrem). Wherefore what was acknowledged 552 4 | altitude, which set forth the image of "The House of the Lord"- 553 15| authority, since it is absurd to imagine that he who is outside can 554 10| grace is above nature, as immortal blessings are above the 555 12| through this rock. Christ imparts His gifts, and is not exhausted.... 556 15| Epist. lxxxvi. ad Michael. Imperat.) wherefore Gelasius on 557 9 | Church the primacy is most impious and above measure arrogant. 558 6 | merely begs, but entreats and implores Christians to be all of 559 6 | faith. It is of the greatest importance and indeed of absolute necessity, 560 3 | God. It is assuredly as impossible that the Church of Jesus 561 1 | This the Divine Author impressed on it as a lasting sign 562 1 | who consider it. Nor is it improbable that ignorance may be dispelled 563 13| binding and loosing from the Incarnate Word Himself; and, according 564 16| the hearts of men and to incline them as and when He pleases, 565 10| office are, in general, all included in the words of St. Paul: " 566 15| over the same people is not incongruous. Thus the parish priest, 567 9 | wished, as it were, to be incorporated in it. And it alone supplies 568 1 | namely, who alone "gives the increase" (I Cor. iii., 6)-We earnestly 569 12| the whole world. He who increased the Church in all the earth, 570 12| in all its strength and indestructible unity. How could he fulfil 571 12| expression of binding and loosing indicates the power of making laws, 572 10| called in Holy Writ by names indicating a perfect society. It is 573 10| by God on all Christians indiscriminately, but on certain chosen persons. 574 15| that while each Bishop is individually bound to obey the authority 575 9 | as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith 576 7 | point out. Assuredly the infinite power of God is not bound 577 1 | Church ought greatly to influence the minds of those who consider 578 10| in Civil matters, or to infringe upon the rights of the State, 579 3 | energizing, because by the infusion of His power Christ guards 580 14| succeed the Apostles, they inherit their ordinary power, and 581 3 | could not even have been initiated except through the senses, 582 12| the rest, lays on him the injunction: "Feed my lambs-feed my 583 13| see: and the paper and the ink were seen, and Peter spoke 584 9 | meaning not from their own inner consciousness, but from 585 7 | principle, therefore, we must inquire which one of all the means 586 12| dangers, to guard against insidious foes, to defend it against 587 7 | committed to writing by divine inspiration, could not unite the minds 588 4 | did not, in point of fact, institute a Church to embrace several 589 16| derive from Our words fuller instruction and a more perfect disposition 590 2 | preferred to help men by the instrumentality of men. And, as in the natural 591 7 | obey it as so many passive instruments. In regard to this external 592 7 | absolutely necessary to insure this union of men's minds-to 593 8 | course of time, since it was intended for the people at large 594 10| the Church has any wish to interfere in Civil matters, or to 595 3 | in man, nothing is more internal than heavenly grace which 596 15| keys. Nor is it lawful to interpret in a different sense what 597 9 | the Church of God" (Vetus Interpretatio Commentariorum in Matt. 598 9 | Scripture alone, and took the interpretation of its meaning not from 599 9 | zealously guarded and fully interpreted" (Contra Haereses, lib. 600 3 | things the messengers and interpreters. For this reason the Church 601 12| Lord does not hesitate. He interrogates, not to learn but to teach. 602 3 | to the true Church as the intimate union of the soul and body 603 12| notwithstanding the wiles and intrigues which they bring to bear 604 9 | true, not on account of the intrinsic truth perceived by the natural 605 9 | and the acknowledged and invariable teaching of the Church as 606 5 | head like to Christ must be invented-that is, another Christ-if besides 607 4 | done. We must consequently investigate not how the Church may possibly 608 3 | authority. And, when He had invoked upon them from Heaven the 609 8 | allowable to repudiate one iota of the Apostles' teaching 610 4 | the top of the mountains" (Isa. ii., 2). But this mountain 611 12| shall not prevail against it-proclaim and establish the authority 612 3 | Rom. x., 17). And faith itself-that is assent given to the first 613 4 | the House of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us His 614 4 | the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” For it is not on Mount 615 12| and his successors" (S. Joannes Chrysostomus, De Sacerdotio, 616 12| handed him the Keys" (S. Johannes Chrysostomus, Hom. liv., 617 5 | one; and one the people, joined together in the solid unity 618 5 | together, by what every joint supplieth according to the 619 15| the fact that there is one judge in the place of Christ in 620 9 | what the Apostle St. James judges to be the effect of a moral 621 16| s, Rome, the 29th day of June, in the year 1896, and the 622 15| strength and stability? Surely jurisdicton and authority belong to 623 3 | the heart we believe unto justice, but with the mouth confession 624 10| as no heresy can ever be justifiable, so in like manner there 625 10| like manner there can be no justification for schism. "There is nothing 626 4 | lands and at all times. to justify the existence of more than 627 13| Eighth Council by the Emperor Justinian, by Epiphanius, John and 628 12| His Church, "Who bath the key of David, who openeth and 629 16| earnestly commend to His loving kindness all those of whom We have 630 12| the keys of the heavenly kingdom-the power of binding and loosing 631 8 | His name to nations and kings, and to be witnesses to 632 6 | unity should be so closely knit and so perfect amongst His 633 12| a Kingdom, and every one knows that the keys constitute 634 15| authority, so they have always laboured, and will continue to labour, 635 4 | themselves distinct, and lacking those bonds which render 636 15| by the very fact that it lacks the assent and approval 637 12| the injunction: "Feed my lambs-feed my sheep." That is He confides 638 4 | Church should be one in all lands and at all times. to justify 639 8 | intended for the people at large and instituted for the salvation 640 10| only and those who should lawfully succeed them to feed-that 641 15| it necessarily becomes a lawless and disorderly crowd. It 642 12| Him more than the rest, lays on him the injunction: " 643 9 | doctrine what they please, lean on their own judgments, 644 9 | measure arrogant. And if all learning, no matter how easy and 645 8 | things, that which they had learnt from their Master; because 646 5 | of the Church, and he who leaves the Church of Christ cannot 647 13| the priest, the Pontifical legate at the Council of Ephesus, 648 9 | despises the majesty of God the Legislator. But he who dissents even 649 16| constituted. We have treated at length of its unity: we have explained 650 | less 651 1 | Jesus Christ), but some lesser trouble and labour, let 652 15| to be preserved for all, lest any of the other apostles 653 13| Cornelium, n. 3. and Ep. liac., ad eundem, n. 14). He 654 9 | craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive" (Eph. 655 2 | human aid for that which lies beyond the limits of nature, 656 1 | Our hope in the "Father of lights," from whom "cometh every 657 2 | servant, being made in the likeness of man" (Philipp. ii., 6, 658 2 | that which lies beyond the limits of nature, that is to say, 659 1 | exemplar and, as it were, the lineaments of the Church. Amongst these 660 9 | Theodoret, drew up a long list of the heresies of their 661 4 | foretold by Isaiah, when looking into the future he saw the 662 12| and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth it shall be loosed 663 12| loose on earth it shall be loosed also in Heaven." This metaphorical 664 13| Heavenly powers binds and loosens there" (Defloratio ex Epistola 665 5 | and command of Christ, the Lord-leaving the path of salvation they 666 15| unreservedly committed? If thou lovest me, Peter, feed my sheep. 667 12| He saith to him: «If thou lowest Me, be over my brethren.» 668 12| Exposit. in Evang. secundum Lucam, lib. x., nn. 175-176). 669 14| Hieronymus, Dialog, contra Luciferianos, n. 9). It is necessary, 670 13| the Catholic Church" (Ep. lv., n. 1). In the same way 671 8 | scattereth" (S. Cyprianus, Ep. lxix., ad Magnum, n. I).~ 672 3 | not disappear" (In Psalm. lxx., n. 8). And in another 673 15| See" (Nicholaus in Epist. lxxxvi. ad Michael. Imperat.) wherefore 674 13| in the Second Council of Lyons: "The same holy Roman Church 675 15| disturbed if there be a twofold magistracy of the same rank set over 676 8 | Cyprianus, Ep. lxix., ad Magnum, n. I).~ 677 3 | what its nature is, the main thing is to see what Christ 678 9 | that this unity should be maintained, we may address the following 679 9 | only virtually despises the majesty of God the Legislator. But 680 12| loosing indicates the power of making laws, of judging and of 681 4 | same mission and the same mandate which He had received from 682 9 | lib. xvii., Contra Faustum Manichaeum, cap. 3). For this reason 683 9 | to sanctify and to save mankind. But faith alone cannot 684 9 | the Apostolic churches-the matrices and original centres of 685 10| wish to interfere in Civil matters, or to infringe upon the 686 12| writing to the Emperor Maurice Augustus, says: "It is evident 687 13| n. 1). In the same way Maximus the Abbot teaches that obedience 688 9 | time only-"but until we all meet in the unity of faith... 689 13| by Epiphanius, John and Menna, the Patriarchs, this same 690 3 | which are of all things the messengers and interpreters. For this 691 12| loosed also in Heaven." This metaphorical expression of binding and 692 7 | insure this union of men's minds-to effect and preserve unity 693 13| Church, as the mother and mistress of all the faithful, by 694 3 | invisible divine nature, as the Monophysites hold, but is one, from and 695 9 | her own. The Arians, the Montanists, the Novatians, the Quartodecimans, 696 9 | judges to be the effect of a moral deliquency, the same is 697 | Moreover 698 15| the children and feeds the mothers, governs the subjects and 699 4 | Jerusalem.” For it is not on Mount Sion that Isaiah sees the 700 16| mercy of God, who is able to move the hearts of men and to 701 3 | shakes; but how can Christ be moved?...Christ remaining immovable, 702 3 | evidenced and manifested by the movements and action of the members, 703 10| formed out of the divided multitude of peoples, one in faith, 704 8 | miracles; He teaches the multitudes heavenly doctrine by word 705 10| the Magisterium already named, so the power of performing 706 13| Christian faith, not by one nation only nor in one age, but 707 2 | Son of God assumed human nature-"who being in the form of 708 9 | Rufinus praises Gregory of Nazianzum and Basil because "they 709 9 | those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, 710 12| him, therefore, with the needful authority; since the right 711 9 | important an end. There must needs be also the fitting and 712 3 | nature, which Photinians and Nestorians assert, nor wholly in the 713 3 | to holiness on earth and neverending happiness in Heaven. In 714 15| of the Roman Pontiff, no newly conceived opinion is set 715 15| that of the Apostolic See" (Nicholaus in Epist. lxxxvi. ad Michael. 716 6 | Christ, when His death was nigh at hand, declared His will 717 16| in the year 1896, and the nineteenth of our Pontificate. ~LEO 718 12| secundum Lucam, lib. x., nn. 175-176). These, then, 719 | none 720 15| the second place we must note that the due order of things 721 9 | their times. St. Augustine notes that other heresies may 722 5 | hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also 723 3 | just as the vine gives nourishment and renders fruitful the 724 9 | Arians, the Montanists, the Novatians, the Quartodecimans, the 725 8 | their divine mission by numerous miracles. "But they going 726 15| collectively, subject and obedient to their authority. Christ 727 8 | 18-19-20). So that those obeying the Apostles might be saved, 728 15| if it be subject to and obeys Peter; otherwise it necessarily 729 11| should be visible He was obliged, when He ascended into Heaven, 730 3 | of His doctrine, and the observance of His laws, the human race 731 8 | nations....teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I 732 12| in virtue of His prayers, obtained for Peter that in the fulfilment 733 3 | ordinary and chief means of obtaining grace are external: that 734 13| faithful, by the will of Christ obtains primacy of jurisdiction 735 2 | salvation of souls. But it is obvious that nothing can be communicated 736 8 | xvi., 16). But since it is obviously most in harmony with God' 737 13| o f Peter because it is occupied by the successor of Peter: 738 13| contained in the acts of oecumenical councils and in the sacred 739 5 | See what you must beware of-see what you must avoid-see 740 5 | some member may be cut off-a hand, a finger, a foot. 741 16| the Father, who avenges an offence against the Mother? What 742 16| Clinging to thy Mother, thou offendest thy Father. Another, too, 743 9 | for ever. The Church alone offers to the human race that religion-that 744 3 | the earth. It never grows old, but is ever full of vigour. 745 13| Post Epistolam, xxvi., ad omnes Episc. Hispan., n. 4). We 746 9 | observed, not for a time only-"but until we all meet in 747 16| entirely. The Head is the only-begotten son of God, the body is 748 8 | their Master; because they openly and publicly declare that 749 5 | supplieth according to the operation in the measure of every 750 6 | and to avoid difference of opinions: "I beseech you, brethren, 751 12| Poenitentia, n. 4 in Appendice opp. S. Basilii). He who is 752 15| ii., cap. 8). But it is opposed to the truth, and in evident 753 13| remains, therefore, the ordinance of truth, and St. Peter, 754 3 | purpose, by means of certain ordinances. Jesus Christ commanded 755 1 | Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries in Peace ~and Communion 756 12| gates of Hell prevail" (Origenes, Comment. in Matt., tom. 757 9 | churches-the matrices and original centres of the faith, must 758 13| everywhere as faithful and orthodox. He speaks in vain who tries 759 9 | Auctor Tract. de Fide Orthodoxa contra Arianos). The practice 760 13| tries to persuade me of the orthodoxy of those who, like himself, 761 | ours 762 | Ourselves 763 3 | intellect, must be manifested by outward profession-"For with the 764 15| it. These can indeed be overcome by the assaults of the powers 765 11| establish unity upon one" (S. Pacianus ad Sempronium, Ep. iii., 766 15| given to the bishops as paid to themselves. "My honour 767 13| formula of faith which Michael Paleologus professed in the Second 768 13| successor to his see: and the paper and the ink were seen, and 769 15| not incongruous. Thus the parish priest, the bishop, and 770 10| Augustinus, Contra Epistolam Parmeniani, lib. ii., cap. ii., n. 771 12| willed that Peter should participate in certain names, signs 772 14| of the rest without Peter participating in it" (S. Leo M. sermo 773 10| one in end, one in the participation of the means adapted to 774 13| with St. Peter, but should pass to his successors from one 775 6 | judgment" (I Cor. i., 10). Such passages certainly need no interpreter; 776 14| words of Christ asks: "Why, passing over the others, does He 777 7 | disturbing element of conflicting passions. From a variety of interpretations 778 7 | things obey it as so many passive instruments. In regard to 779 7 | such as have arisen in the past, even in the first ages 780 16| them not refuse to obey Our paternal charity. Those who acknowledge 781 5 | Christ, the Lord-leaving the path of salvation they enter 782 4 | and we will walk in His paths" (Ibid., ii., 2-3). Explaining 783 5 | suffering and death in order to pay the price of man's redemption, 784 9 | ordered, under the gravest penalties, that its teachings should 785 9 | account of the intrinsic truth perceived by the natural light of 786 5 | salvation they enter on that of perdition. "Whosoever is separated 787 3 | but which is without the perennial communication of the gifts 788 9 | pastors and doctors, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work 789 9 | religion-that state of absolute perfection-which He wished, as it were, to 790 9 | not wholly attained by the performance of this duty. For, since 791 10| already named, so the power of performing and administering the divine 792 8 | those disobeying should perish. "He that believeth and 793 4 | is to save that which had perished: that is to say, not some 794 3 | Church are in grievous and pernicious error: as also are those 795 11| authority instituted in perpetuity for the salvation of all 796 13| of truth, and St. Peter, persevering in the strength of the rock 797 13| the Lord Himself, in the person of St. Peter, the Prince 798 13| speaks in vain who tries to persuade me of the orthodoxy of those 799 10| man's guide to whatever pertains to Heaven. This is the office 800 7 | have arisen, and certain perverse views ensnaring souls and 801 11| aptly names him Peter, from petra the rock, since upon him 802 13| Defloratio ex Epistola ad Petrum illustrem). Wherefore what 803 13| and through all ages, this Philip, the priest, the Pontifical 804 2 | in the likeness of man" (Philipp. ii., 6,7)-and thus living 805 3 | visible human nature, which Photinians and Nestorians assert, nor 806 5 | which the natural head is physiologically united. As He took to Himself 807 3 | arbitrarily conjure up and picture to themselves a hidden and 808 13| Prince of the Apostles, the pillar of the faith and the ground 809 8 | religiously accepted and piously kept as if it were His own-" 810 16| they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, 811 16| incline them as and when He pleases, We most earnestly commend 812 16| whom We have spoken. As a pledge of Divine grace, and as 813 13| received together with the plenitude of power from the Lord Himself, 814 12| constitutes a rock" (Hom. de Poenitentia, n. 4 in Appendice opp. 815 16| sufficiently its nature, and pointed out the way in which the 816 3 | vigour. Wherefore Holy Writ pointing to its strength and stability 817 9 | word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple 818 13| Philip, the priest, the Pontifical legate at the Council of 819 16| and the nineteenth of our Pontificate. ~LEO XIII ~ ~ 820 9 | abandoned only a tertian portion of it. Still who does not 821 15| and not of any certain portions of it. These can indeed 822 11| what was the evident and positive will of Christ. Certainly 823 13| The Roman Pontiffs Possess Supreme Power in the Church 824 9 | the heretics allege the possession of the canonical scriptures, 825 13| stain in the Apostolic See" (Post Epistolam, xxvi., ad omnes 826 12| the Church, but shall be powerless against it" (Ibid.). Therefore 827 9 | Orthodoxa contra Arianos). The practice of the Church has always 828 9 | testimony of the truth" (De Praescrip., cap. xxxi). And so Hilary: " 829 9 | Matt. xiii., n. I). Rufinus praises Gregory of Nazianzum and 830 12| the Lord, in virtue of His prayers, obtained for Peter that 831 14| at once, "Because he was pre-eminent among the Apostles, the 832 8 | according to the will of God....Preaching therefore the word through 833 13| These declarations were preceded by the consent of antiquity 834 1 | that spouse redeemed by His precious blood. "Christ loved the 835 7 | views ensnaring souls and precipitating them into the abyss only 836 3 | Christ" (I Cor. xii., 27)-and precisely because it is a body is 837 1 | consideration; that false ideas and prejudices may be dissipated from the 838 11| iii., n. 11). "Without any prelude He mentions St. Peter's 839 11| to withdraw His visible presence from the Church, it was 840 7 | clearly sets forth as We shall presently point out. Assuredly the 841 9 | principle, and the means of preserving this unity? In that-"He 842 10| But it is also the fold presided over by one Shepherd, and 843 10| Christianity. Wherefore they who pretend that the Church has any 844 15| should be prevented from prevailing against the Church. All 845 9 | this so perfectly one as to prevent all danger of error: "that 846 15| gates of hell should be prevented from prevailing against 847 9 | can be greater evidence of pride and rashness than to be 848 15| Who art thou? The great priest-the high priest. Thou art the 849 1 | Brethren, the Patriarchs, Primates, ~Archbishops, Bishops, 850 14| between him and the other princes, whatever He did not deny 851 3 | the Church which must be principally considered; and of this, 852 10| the arbitrary judgment of private individuals, but, in the 853 16| soothsaying, I seek not profane divinations, I go not to 854 13| which Michael Paleologus professed in the Second Council of 855 12| Peter alone of all others professes his love he is preferred 856 8 | the duty of accepting and professing all their doctrine should 857 3 | commanded, so that by the profession of His doctrine, and the 858 3 | be manifested by outward profession-"For with the heart we believe 859 9 | help of God, such manifest progress and such abundant fruit, 860 15| twofold authority. We are prohibited in the first place by Divine 861 8 | be given to His teaching, promising eternal rewards to those 862 8 | perpetuated. We see it in truth propagated, and, as it were, delivered 863 4 | says: "It is written in the prophet Isaiah: “from Sion the law 864 10| Chrysostom concurs: "I say and protest (he writes) that it is as 865 15| shepherds. You ask how I prove this? From the words of 866 8 | otherwise well known. Christ proves His own divinity and the 867 8 | death? It was consequently provided by God that the Magisterium 868 3 | end of His Church and the proximate efficient causes of salvation, 869 10| in its end and in means proximately adapted to the attainment 870 13| Peter is to him always the public criterion of a Catholic. " 871 12| laws, of judging and of punishing; and the power is said to 872 8 | who believe and eternal punishment to those who do not. "If 873 9 | it in its integrity and purity. But this is not all: the 874 1 | 30). Wherefore, having put all Our hope in the "Father 875 15| Sent, dist. xvii., a. 4, ad q. 4, ad 3). So the Roman 876 9 | Montanists, the Novatians, the Quartodecimans, the Eutychians, did not 877 13| all others, so also if any question should arise concerning 878 15| Christ the Lord, as we have quite sufficiently shown, made 879 13| 4). We have no wish to quote every available declaration; 880 9 | succession? In vain do heretics rage round it; they are condemned 881 15| twofold magistracy of the same rank set over a people, neither 882 9 | rebels and expelled from the ranks of her children all who 883 9 | greater evidence of pride and rashness than to be unwilling to 884 9 | Episcopal succession...which has reached even unto our age by the 885 8 | But how could all this be realized in the Apostles alone, placed 886 9 | faith. Hence she regarded as rebels and expelled from the ranks 887 13| being raised in dissent, recalls: "No one can doubt, yea, 888 9 | the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from 889 6 | of this unity should be recognized. And, as We have already 890 1 | united himself to that spouse redeemed by His precious blood. " 891 5 | to pay the price of man's redemption, so also He has one mystical 892 15| Episcopal College to which we refer, and which is clearly set 893 10| successors alone these words have reference: "Going into the whole world 894 13| that of St. Irenaeus who, referring to the Roman Church, says: " 895 9 | faith, since he thereby refuses to honour God as the supreme 896 15| Conciliabulum of Ephesus. Damasus rejected those of Rimini, and Hadrian 897 9 | revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he thereby 898 10| members, and likewise in the relation of all the members of the 899 9 | offers to the human race that religion-that state of absolute perfection-which 900 8 | of the Apostles should be religiously accepted and piously kept 901 3 | Christ be moved?...Christ remaining immovable, it (the Church), 902 13| from one to another. "There remains, therefore, the ordinance 903 4 | they are situated in some remote part of the earth.....But 904 12| stability and strength. Remove it and the whole building 905 9 | cause for doubting being removed, can it be lawful for anyone 906 16| of Himself We may truly repeat of Ourselves: "Other sheep 907 14| about these things?" And he replies unhesitatingly and at once, " 908 11| does not give an adequate reply. It is clear, indeed, that 909 8 | was no more allowable to repudiate one iota of the Apostles' 910 9 | from the Church?-without repudiating in one sweeping act the 911 15| Councils. Leo the great rescinded the acts of the Conciliabulum 912 3 | and supreme truth-though residing essentially in the intellect, 913 4 | perpetuated. This He clearly resolved to do: this He actually 914 8 | had come down upon them, resounded throughout the world. Wherever 915 16| to keep united with their respective pastors, and through them 916 13| Council of Constantinople responds as an echo: "The chief Prince 917 13| is said is proved by the result, because Catholic faith 918 6 | of action are the natural results. Wherefore, in His divine 919 13| the power of forgiving and retaining sins was given to him who, 920 1 | should perceive that their return involves, not indeed the 921 9 | authority of God Himself, the Revealer, who can neither deceive 922 13| the Bishops of Rome, and revered them, as the legitimate 923 9 | being deceived by Thee" (Richardus de S. Victore, De Trin., 924 3 | perpetuated to the end of rime, He took to Himself Disciples, 925 15| Damasus rejected those of Rimini, and Hadrian I. those of 926 3 | the sun-as long as the sun rises and sets: that is, as long 927 3 | as the ages of time shall roll, the Church of God-the true 928 15| Allocutione iii., ad Synodum Romanum an. 869, Cf. Actionem vii., 929 13| Church, that "it is the root and mother of the Catholic 930 9 | In vain do heretics rage round it; they are condemned partly 931 9 | in Matt. xiii., n. I). Rufinus praises Gregory of Nazianzum 932 13| principal Church whence sacerdotal unity has its source" (Ep. 933 12| Joannes Chrysostomus, De Sacerdotio, lib. ii). And since all 934 9 | found chiefly in the divine Sacrifice and in the dispensation 935 10| nothing more grievous than the sacrilege of schism....there can be 936 15| first of the Apostles; the safeguard of the Church." In this 937 12| to Peter so that he might safely guard it with his unconquerable 938 14| body and one flock. "The safety of the Church depends on 939 9 | for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, 940 2 | that is to say, for the sanctification and salvation of souls. 941 9 | truth of its doctrine, to sanctify and to save mankind. But 942 3 | heavenly grace which begets sanctity, but the ordinary and chief 943 9 | like sterile and worthless sand: they cannot comprehend" ( 944 15| hence his name Cephas), has sat; in which chair alone unity 945 15| that Peter received the saving keys, that is to say, our 946 4 | looking into the future he saw the appearance of a mountain 947 8 | do not gather with Him, scatter His flock and are His adversaries: 948 8 | that gathereth not with Me scattereth" (S. Cyprianus, Ep. lxix., 949 15| that one chair, would be a schismatic and a sinner" (De Schism. 950 9 | studied the text of Holy Scripture alone, and took the interpretation 951 15| successors; because, by this secession, they are separated from 952 12| Ambrosius, Exposit. in Evang. secundum Lucam, lib. x., nn. 175- 953 12| called direction, could never secure to any society of men unity 954 16| that they may remain more securely within the one fold, and 955 6 | what was done; that is by seeking for and ascertaining what 956 3 | sermo ii., n. 5). He who seeks the truth must be guided 957 | seem 958 | seemed 959 4 | on Mount Sion that Isaiah sees the valley, but on the holy 960 11| upon one" (S. Pacianus ad Sempronium, Ep. iii., n. 11). "Without 961 8 | to ascend into heaven He sends His Apostles in virtue of 962 15| that anybody has pronounced sentence on him" (Hadrianus ii., 963 10| Episcopal dissent, also separates from the Church" (S. Hieronymus, 964 9 | falling into heresy?-without separating himself from the Church?- 965 9 | peace" (Eph. iv., 3, et seq.). And as souls cannot be 966 2 | himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness 967 16| the worship of devils, I serve not stones: but I am on 968 6 | might, in some measure, shadow forth the union between 969 12| primacy of honour and the shadowy right of giving advice and 970 3 | totter if its foundation shakes; but how can Christ be moved?... 971 | shalt 972 1 | involves, not indeed the shedding of their blood (at which 973 15| alone the sheep, but the shepherds. You ask how I prove this? 974 12| College....at the same time showing him that henceforth he ought 975 15| of God, and that men lose sight of the fact that there is 976 15| Church" (S. Brunonis Episcopi Signiensis Comment. in Joan., part 977 9 | Christ teaching from the ship signifies that those who are outside 978 13| canons" (Conc. Florentinum). Similarly the Fourth Council of Lateran 979 9 | poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord 980 15| would be a schismatic and a sinner" (De Schism. Donat., lib. 981 16| and to confess that He sits on the right hand of the 982 4 | unknown because they are situated in some remote part of the 983 16| Contra Donatistas Epistola, sive De Unit. Eccl., cap. iv., 984 13| at the beginning of the sixth century in the great Eighth 985 13| acknowledged, without the slightest doubt or hesitation, the 986 1 | well known unto you that no small share of Our thoughts and 987 14| not to be regarded as the sole authority. For He who made 988 15| should have been invested solely with a power of direction. 989 9 | divinely revealed, either by a solemn definition or in the exercise 990 13| declared with great weight and solemnity. "For the pronouncement 991 6 | will in this matter, and solemnly offered it up, thus addressing 992 9 | care concord of minds: "Solicitous to keep the unity of the 993 5 | joined together in the solid unity of the body in the 994 15| that by the strength and solidity of the foundation the gates 995 | someone 996 | something 997 10| all who wished to be the sons of God by adoption might 998 16| consult fortune-tellers and soothsayers; but I leave not the Church 999 16| fortune-telling, I seek not soothsaying, I seek not profane divinations, 1000 3 | heard them begot faith in souls-"Faith cometh by hearing,