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Page 35 - Romanum Pontificem, cum ex Cathedra loquitur, id est, cum omnium Christianorum Pastoris et Doctoris munere fungens pro suprema sua Apostolica auctoritate doctrinam de fide vel moribus ab universa Ecclesia tenendam definit, per assistentiam divinam, ipsi in beato Petro promissam, ea infallibilitate pollere, qua divinus Redemptor Ecclesiam suam in definienda doctrina de fide vel moribus instructam esse voluit ; ideoque ejusmodi Romani Pontificis definitiones ex sese, non autem ex consensu Ecclesiae,...
Page 45 - ... the Pope demands for himself the right to determine the province of his own rights, and has so defined it in formal documents as to warrant any and every invasion of the civil sphere ; and that this new version of the principles of the Papal church inexorably binds its members to the admission of these exorbitant claims, without any refuge or reservation on behalf of their duty to the...
Page 92 - That the Roman Pontiff is the true vicar of Christ, and the head of the whole Church, and the father and teacher of all Christians...
Page 90 - The character and scope of this series will be best indicated by a reference to the names and subjects included in the subjoined list, from which it will be seen that the cooperation of the most distinguished professors in England, Germany, France, and the United States, has been secured, and negotiations are pending for contributions from other eminent scientific writers.
Page 6 - ... no one can become her convert without renouncing his moral and mental freedom, and placing his civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another...
Page 38 - And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Page 57 - ... said, were also proper to be said by me. I must ask pardon, if a tone of egotism be detected in this necessarily subordinate portion of my remarks. For thirty years, and in a great variety of circumstances, in office and as an independent Member of Parliament, in majorities and in small minorities, and during the larger portion of the time* as the representative of a great constituency, mainly clerical, I have, with others, laboured to maintain and extend the civil rights of my Roman Catholic...
Page 62 - From that time forward I have felt that the situation was changed, and that important matters would have to be cleared by suitable explanations.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation |
| Author | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Publisher | D. Appleton, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 21, 2005 |
| Length | 90 pages |
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